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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsReal simple question: what would it take to change the age for Medicare?
Is this for congress?
Can the president simply order it?
How do we change the age for Medicare?
sinkingfeeling
(51,457 posts)increase the age to 70?
CAPHAVOC
(1,138 posts)Expanding Medicare to all citizens and throwing the Mega-Insurance companies on the ash heap of history. And it is Constitutional. We can't have that can we?
One_Life_To_Give
(6,036 posts)How is our democracy going to function without big insurance to fund our campaigns and their lobbyists to write out laws?
CAPHAVOC
(1,138 posts)is supposed to. The Corruptocraticans rule the day right now.
bornskeptic
(1,330 posts)We people in that age bracket are too expensive to cover. They'd be able to drop their premiums to attract more young healthy people into the market. Under the ACA they are only allowed to charge three times as much for a 64-year-old as for a healthy 25 -year-old, compared with the 10:1 ratios which sometimes occur now.
Horse with no Name
(33,956 posts)1. Drop the age requirement for Medicare to 18.
2. Drop the income requirements for CHIPS for those under 18.
tsuki
(11,994 posts)would be paid for including birth control. Never happen.
Horse with no Name
(33,956 posts)and pay their own way. I don't have a problem with that.
zipplewrath
(16,646 posts)They should have handled the "kids on parents policy" by offering that parents could buy medicare for them for a few years. The kds would have gotten used to it and wanted to buy additional years. Pretty soon, you'd have a population of people that just expected to be able to get their health insurace "from the government".
libtodeath
(2,888 posts)karynnj
(59,503 posts)I think this could not have passed back in 2009. In addition, an enormous amount of revenue would have to be found to pay for this.
SammyWinstonJack
(44,130 posts)Lydia Leftcoast
(48,217 posts)65 and 69.
Not to mention the fact that 70-year-olds usually have more ailments than younger people, so it would actually worsen the system's financing.
Given all the people 50-65 who are having trouble paying for insurance, I'd think that a gradual lowering of the age (by 5 years every year) would be popular. By 2016, everyone over 45 would be eligible.
Filling the ranks with younger, healthier people would help balance the system's finances.
Stinky The Clown
(67,807 posts)Shame on you!
Lydia Leftcoast
(48,217 posts)in Conventional Beltway Wisdom Land.
belcffub
(595 posts)how would it be cheaper if more people are on medicare...
doesn't mater how healthy people are... medicare is financed from paycheck withholdings (a dedicated tax really)... that amount won't change if you add additional people... seems like it would cost more if you add more people
can you explain how it would be cheaper...
Lydia Leftcoast
(48,217 posts)If younger, healthier people were paying premiums but not using as many services (less likely to have cancer, heart attacks, strokes than the 65+ crowd and far less likely to need nursing home care, even for the 30 days allowed after hospitalization), that would help the finances.
tsuki
(11,994 posts)belcffub
(595 posts)I just didn't get how it balanced out before...
thanks again
SOS
(7,048 posts)But our friend Joe Lieberman voted no leaving us one vote short.
His insurance pals in Hartford must have paid off handsomely for that.