CBO: Raising Medicare Age Would Reduce Medicare Spending By 5 Percent, But Increase Costs To Seniors

CBO: Raising Medicare Age Would Reduce Medicare Spending By 5 Percent, But Increase Costs To Seniors: pA new Congressional Budget Office (CBO) analysis finds that raising the Medicare eligibility age (MEA), a popular conservative entitlement reform proposal that has also received limited support from President Obama and Democrats in Congress, could reduce Medicare spending by about 5 percent over the long-term: CBO expects that most people affected by the change would [...]/p