Medicare change fails the fairness test
Raising the eligibility age to 67 would increase costs for seniors and employers by $8.2 billion.
President Obama needs to hang tough on letting Bush-era tax cuts expire for the wealthiest Americans in “fiscal cliff” negotiations with House Republicans. And he needs to put the brakes on another GOP proposal that would undermine the nation’s faltering middle class: raising the age of eligibility for Medicare.
Yes, both sides must compromise to begin to tame a budget deficit growing out of control, fueled in large part by rising health care costs. But any deal must be based on sound fiscal and public policy.
December 10, 2012 - 6:19 AM
If “entitlements” are to be cut, how about cutting the farm subsidies paid to large corporations? Oh, right, big business owns the Republican Party.
There are no easy answers. On that we can be assured.
Senator Lindsey Graham (SC) has been reported today in a Washington Post article Re:Medicare, “Lindsey Graham’s ‘bankruptcy’ trifecta,” has been awarded a Factchecker 3 Pinocchios. Is he immune to working constructively for which he was elected instead of earning more Pinocchios?
I do not know if he is immune, but he is most certainly incapable IMO, Gary.