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In reply to the discussion: Obamacare Would Make Insurance Companies Give Consumers Their $2 billion Back [View all]BzaDem
(11,142 posts)Obviously, to whatever extent Obama offered to raise the Medicare eligibility age (and to whatever extent that offer was real), that was a bad idea. I doubt very many people here disagree that raising the eligibility age is bad policy.
But what does that have to do with the healthcare bill? ProSense's pointed out that the healthcare bill included the largest expansion of public health coverage in decades. More than half the insurance expansion was through Medicaid. It turned Medicaid from a program where states could erect barriers to eligibility (turning away even the poorest of the poor depending on non-income factors), to making it a GUARANTEE for anyone up to 133% of FPL in every state.
If the best you can do in replying that is to change the subject entirely, that says a lot about the claimed liberal case against the healthcare bill.