Stop the Bid to Expand Medicare
Forbes.com | Sally C. Pipes
July 6, 2021
Progressives in Congress are laying the groundwork to expand Medicare by the slimmest of margins later this year. Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., the head of the Senate Budget Committee, is teeing up a $6 trillion legislative package that would, among other things, lower the age at which older adults become eligible for Medicare to 60 from 65. And they’d use budget reconciliation—the complicated Senate procedure that requires only a simple majority to advance legislation—to expand the entitlement.
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