HealthCare Notes

12/11/12

STUDY: Raising Medicare Eligibility Age Would Devastate America’s Most Vulnerable Seniors

STUDY: Raising Medicare Eligibility Age Would Devastate America’s Most Vulnerable Seniors: The Center for American Progress (CAP) today released a new study highlighting the devastating effect that raising the Medicare eligibility age would have on America’s seniors. CAP’s study finds that if lawmakers were to raise the eligibility age to 67, as many as 5.4 million 65- and 66-year-olds would have to search for alternative coverage [...]/p