{"id":31707,"date":"2012-12-10T22:27:02","date_gmt":"2012-12-11T05:27:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/12\/10\/raising-the-medicare-eligibility-age-is-not-a-good-idea.html"},"modified":"2012-12-10T22:27:02","modified_gmt":"2012-12-11T05:27:02","slug":"raising-the-medicare-eligibility-age-is-not-a-good-idea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/12\/10\/raising-the-medicare-eligibility-age-is-not-a-good-idea.html","title":{"rendered":"Raising the Medicare eligibility age is not a good idea"},"content":{"rendered":"

Largely because it means the folks who most need Medicare at 65 won't have it. Which means they will let their medical conditions get worse (because they can't afford insurance otherwise). Which means when they do hit Medicare (assuming they don't, y'know, die<\/i> in the process), they will be more costly<\/i> patients.<\/p>\n

In other words, the savings from raising the Medicare eligibility age need to be balanced against the extra costs that more sickly patients hitting the system a few years later will incur. Leaving aside that whole "dying" thing.<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tA reoccurring idea among some politicians of late in the fiscal cliff negotiations is to raise the Medicare eligibility age from 65 to 67. The argument, at first glance, seems simple enough: Medicare …\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

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Largely because it means the folks who most need Medicare at 65 won't have it. Which means they will let their medical conditions get worse (because they can't afford insurance otherwise). Which means when they do hit Medicare (assuming they don't, y'know, die in the process), they will be more costly patients. 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