Medicare and Medicaid are essentially a form of a voucher to get you admission to the hospital of your choice. I think that to be consistent, liberals should demand they be eliminated and medical consumers be forced to go to the local, free public hospital run by powerful unions and no mercy be shown to any poor bastard unfortunate enough to live near a shitty hospital. If they desire to go to a better hospital in a different neighborhood, they should be ashamed of themselves for wanting to destroy the public hospital system.
That is what they demand for schoolchildren, after all. They have to go to the local school with no choice in the matter, the poor little kids who are the future, no less..