Austin Frakt on Raising the Medicare Eligibility Age

Austin Frakt demolishes the case for raising the Medicare eligibility age. 

Here is an area where left and right should agree: the Medicare eligibility age gambit was a “nothingburger” that was advanced by politicians who want to delay serious structural reform of the Medicare program until after they’ve left office or after they are no longer eligible for reelection, yet who want to project seriousness on the subject of rising entitlement spending.