Raising Medicare Eligibility Age In Debt Ceiling Negotiations

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REPORT: Raising Medicare Eligibility Age On The Table In Debt Ceiling Negotiations
By Igor Volsky on Jul 8, 2011 at 11:02 am

Inside Health Policy’s Sahil Kapur is reporting that negotiators may be considering raising the Medicare eligibility age from 65 to 67 as part of an effort to reach a deal with Republicans on increasing the debt ceiling:

• Key negotiators in the debt limit talks are mulling a proposal to raise the Medicare eligibility age from 65 to 67, a source familiar with the discussions says. Due to the volatility and sensitivity of the negotiations, Inside Health Policy could not confirm whether the White House and Republicans have agreed to include the provision in a final deal.
  
• The idea was floated in a deficit reduction plan recently offered by Sens. Joe Lieberman (I-CT) and Tom Coburn (R-OK). The Congressional Budget Office found that raising the Medicare age to 67 would save $124.8 billion between 2014 and 2021.
  
• Although House Democratic leaders say they’ll reject any Medicare benefit cuts, Republicans are eager to scale back the program and President Obama reportedly hasn’t taken any aspect of Medicare off the table.

http://thinkprogress.org/health/2011/07/08/263785/report-raising-medicare-eligibility-age-on-the-table-in-debt-ceiling-negotiations/

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Asking us who have less to give more.
:mad:

[MineralMan]

1. "May be considering..."

What does that mean, really? And who the heck is Sahil Kapur? Is that person in the meetings? Did he hear this, or is he just speculating like so many others are doing?

More speculation and unsupported conjecture. There sure is a lot of that out there right now.

[emulatorloo]

3. +1 - "may" "could be"

[MineralMan]

5. Well, they may be considering planting potatoes in the White

House rose garden, too. Who knows. Anything's possible, eh? :rofl:

[rhett o rick]

2. We need to reduce the Medicare eligibility age. Why wont our Dem's suggest that? nm

[Mojorabbit]

4. because people in their 60's really want to

be out there trying to compete with a gazillion others looking for work so they can keep their insurance.