she's often used as the inspiration for killing medicare,
Then I like her. "Medicare" is just a euphemism for stealing from Group A to give money to Group B. It's immoral, not to mention economically destructive.
Americas medicare system is pretty poor I've heard, it's the flicking of a dime to the vagrant that is the healthcare of the US majority. Mostly its there to pay big pharma and big insurance anyway isn't it?
All that notwithstanding, Group A
is Group B. Unless you come from planet Krypton, the chances are you will find yourself in both groups during the course of the changing circumstances of your life.