Eliminating, no, but definitely slashing funding. The proposal in CA would have required federal Medicare funding to make it viable, and less of that would probably kill it.
The thing that pisses me off is that the GOP wants to slash funding for a ton of public services, but not materially lower taxes for people. So if states want to bring back those public services, they need to raise taxes, which overall causes a person's tax rate to be higher.
I'd be fine with the federal gov't even entirely killing Medicare if that would cause my effective federal tax rate to drop by several percentage points, points that I'd be happy to turn around and give to CA for them to implement something like single-payer.
(The downside, of course, is that residents of less progressive states get screwed, which is why I'd rather the federal gov't leave things alone, but give states like CA more latitude in how they use those dollars.)
The thing that pisses me off is that the GOP wants to slash funding for a ton of public services, but not materially lower taxes for people. So if states want to bring back those public services, they need to raise taxes, which overall causes a person's tax rate to be higher.
I'd be fine with the federal gov't even entirely killing Medicare if that would cause my effective federal tax rate to drop by several percentage points, points that I'd be happy to turn around and give to CA for them to implement something like single-payer.
(The downside, of course, is that residents of less progressive states get screwed, which is why I'd rather the federal gov't leave things alone, but give states like CA more latitude in how they use those dollars.)