GOP Offers to Throw Middle Class, Elderly Over the “Fiscal Cliff” | Common Dreams
"The Republicans also propose to raise the Medicare eligibility age to 67, which would force 65 and 66 year olds to seek private, individual health care coverage on the open insurance market. And since they’d also repeal the new health care law, these older Americans would get no help in that process. (Here are eight reasons raising the Medicare age is a terrible idea.)"
