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Both plans, Ravitch noted, called for increasing the retirement age for Medicare from 65 to 67.
The so-called premium-support plan for Medicare, from Paul D. Ryan, the 2012 Republican vice-presidential candidate, would let older Americans use their health care dollars to buy insurance from competing private plans.
During negotiations with Mr Boehner last year, Mr Obama offered two substantial concessions: to raise the age at which Americans become eligible for Medicare from 65 to 67, and to index Social Security benefits to a less-generous version of the consumer price index.
Oh sure, we might and probably should raise the age for Medicare from 65-67 years old.
We could do it too, by reducing the starting age for Medicare from 65 to 0. There's still time to act.
As a Party, Democrats should propose the elimination of the so-called age tax, by lowering the initial age of eligibility for Medicare from age 65 to age 50.
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No one knows what the political climate could have been with a strong, organized fight from progressives for Medicare for all.
The Congressional Budget Office estimates that spending on prescription drugs for Medicare beneficiaries, from all sources, will total $1.3 trillion from 2004 to 2011.
And the biggest buyer in the drug market — the federal government — is prohibited from bargaining for lower prices for Medicare, and from refusing to pay for drugs on the basis of cost.
The Medicare Prescription Drug Improvement and Modernization Act 2003 (US), as one instance, thwarted attempts to introduce a Federal PBAC-type process in the US, specifically prohibiting the US government from using its bulk buying power for Medicare beneficiaries from negotiating medicines price discounts in a PBAC-style approach[ 69].
And so it was with Senator Joseph Lieberman's proposal, released last week, to raise the age for Medicare eligibility from 65 to 67.
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