by RON PAUL || According to a recent Reuters/ Ipsos survey, 70 percent of Americans – including about 50 percent of Republicans – support “Medicare for all,” the latest incarnation of single-payer health care. Few conservative Republicans would dare advocate allowing young people to opt out of paying Medicare taxes in exchange for agreeing to forgo Medicare benefits. Many conservative Republicans favor other government interventions into health care, including many features of Obamacare. The same dynamic at work in health care is at work in other areas. This is why the so-called “conservative welfare state” ends up as bloated and expansive as the progressive welfare state.