MEDICARE - Raising Age of Eligibility Question

"Lawmakers Consider Raising Medicare Age of Eligibility as Budget Compromise" PBS Newshour 12/13/2012

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RAY SUAREZ (Newshour): And that brings us to a big part of the Medicare debate. Should the eligibility age for future retirees be raised from 65 to 67?

Many Democrats have pressured the president this week to oppose any attempt to do so. But in an interview with ABC News, President Obama indicated he may be open to the idea as part of a compromise.

We have our own debate about this and its potential impact.

Neera Tanden is president of the Center for American progress. She previously worked for the Obama administration working on health care reform. And Tevi Troy is a senior fellow at the Hudson Institute and a former deputy secretary of health and human services in the George W. Bush administration. He served as Mitt Romney's health care policy adviser during the just completed presidential campaign.

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