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In reply to the discussion: Pelosi: Dems must say No to raising Medicare eligibility age [View all]1ProudAtheist
(346 posts)1-Raising the elgibilty age will actually weaken the viability of the program.
2-Raising the eligibility age is just a ruse that will be another step towards elimination of Medicare by the Pukes.
3-The economic impact of raising the eligibilty age would be catastrphic because it would create 2 more years of everyone being forced to buy private health insurance at a minimum of 20% higher cost than Medicare.
4-Because of the way that Medicare is funded (through payroll taxes, premiums, and benefit taxes) and the existance of a Trust Fund, it would only affect our deficit amd our National Debt when that Trust Fund is completely exhauseted. (2024) Up until then, all savings from any cuts would have to be put into that Trust Fund and not used for deficit cuts or Debt reduction.
5-IF.........and that is a huge IF.......politicians are genuinely interested in saving Medicare and making it viable for a longer period of time, then the actual action to take is to LOWER the eligibilty age and charge early recipients a buy-in fee on top of premiums. The influx of capital along with the inclusion of millions of healthier individuals would naturally create a larger Trust Fund, and extend the viability of the program.
6-My personal beliefs on this are that politicians....all of them, want to access the medicare and Social Security Trust Fund monies and use them to for their partisan purposes, leaving the programs broke and expendable.