GOP Senators Unveil Plan That Would Raise Medicare Eligibility Age
WASHINGTON — Two Republican senators unveiled a Medicare overhaul Thursday that features an accelerated transition to private health insurance f...
WASHINGTON — Two Republican senators unveiled a Medicare overhaul Thursday that features an accelerated transition to private health insurance f...
Daniel Marans | Posted 01.04.2012
A proposal to increase the Medicare eligibility age, which the Super Committee is considering, would drive up health care costs to the point where they would consume almost half of the Social Security check of a middle-class retiree.
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 12.26.2011
WASHINGTON -- Democrats on the congressional super committee have produced a "presentation" that would include a roughly equal mix of spending cuts an...
Dean Baker | Posted 11.12.2011
The latest budget proposal to raise the age of Medicare eligibility is a proposal to increase health care costs to our children and grandchildren by $2.7 trillion. The idea that this cut is being presented as somehow helping our children is a sick joke.
Richard (RJ) Eskow | Posted 10.30.2011
The Capital's misplaced focus on austerity has led to plenty of bad ideas, but one of the worst is raising the Medicare retirement age to 67. It may be the most destructive deal to come out of Washington since the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854.
HuffingtonPost.com | Elise Foley | Posted 10.18.2011
WASHINGTON -- Deficit super committee member and Republican Rep. Fred Upton (R-Mich.) said Tuesday he will oppose any Social Security benefit reductio...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 09.14.2011
WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama formally acknowledged on Friday that he would support a plan to means-test Medicare as a part of a deal to raise ...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 09.11.2011
WASHINGTON -- President Obama's vision of a grand deal on raising the nation's debt ceiling may have been scrapped by a skittish Speaker John Boehner ...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 09.10.2011
WASHINGTON -- In his press conference on Monday morning, President Barack Obama repeatedly insisted that he was willing to tackle some sacred cows as...
AP | RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR | Posted 05.29.2011
WASHINGTON — Employers and even some younger people would pay more for health insurance if lawmakers raise the eligibility age for Medicare, a s...
AP | RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR | Posted 04.17.2012