Its not sustainable, there aren't enough rich ppl to pay for this program.
The argument is that medicare was set up for retired people at the age of 65 to cover 80% of their health care bills.
Since then everyone has created different programs to suck out of medicare program with Medicaid as the top leech.
So now they want to cut off ALL foodstamps, W.I.C.'s, Medicaid and the rest of the 1000 and one welfare programs which cost more then if the government just gave everyone $13,000 a year and let them pay for their own food, rent, ect.
Problem is that these low information voters that vote for a living have become slaves to the government.
They are the Monster that the government has created by rewarding them to be budgetly impaired, irresponsible nor accountable.
The more they are given the more they want and greed.
Giving them $13,000 a year like you say will only make the drug dealers, party store owners (booze and lotto tickets), tattoo shops, ect. rich.
I say skip the chase, put them all in internment camps if they refuse to work, give them their food, a cot to sleep on with twelve to a room and health care.
Sterilize them after a second child........ both men and women.
No cable t.v., no car, no internet, no play stations, no air conditioning, no I-phones, no alcohol, no cigarettes, no pets, no recreational vehicles, no drugs, not be allowed to leave the fenced in camp unless it was to go to a J.O.B. and nothing that isn't basic to survive.
That would cure most of the welfare abuse real quick.