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Reform Medicare by raising eligibility age: Column
While all of the health policy attention has been focused on the Affordable Care Act’s website problems, a long-term issue is being ignored — the sustainability of the Medicare program. Baby Boomers might be slowing down, but as they age, the behind-the-scenes debate to reform Medicare is getting more vigorous. Some suggest that the glut of beneficiaries born 1946-64 — what demographers call the “pig in the python” — will pass and we can merely nip and tuck at the program’s rising costs. Read more…
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