Reagarding Heathcare and the Public Option

Wouldn't it make more sense to make Medicare available to everyone who is not covered on a policy provided by their employer or unless they are covered under their parent's insurance.

Seems to me that could accomplish a number of things:

1) it would get healthier people (younger people) paying into the program and there would therefore make Medicare more solvent. 

2) Everyone would be covered who is legally employed, disabled or elderly non-working. We, as taxpayers, pay for all of the motorcycle accidents, car accidents and other maladies which strike the "invulnerable" youth of our nation. It's time to share the burden.

3) Much more money would be coming into Medicare and Medicaid even if the working poor and those not covered by their employer were means tested for premium payments. Everyone pays something.

4) Seems that, since the anthrax attacks, national health care that manages to cover everyone is a matter of national security. I mean, just think about it. While anthrax is not communicable like the flu, there are bacteria and viruses out there, now, which are highly contagious. A huge un-ameliorated outbreak of any one of these, not counter-attacked by a close-knitted, efficiently-functioning healthcare system could bring the nation to it's knees.

There will be more of this healthcare reform as time goes on......