Dems eye infrastructure for Medicare expansion

[Uncle Joe]

Senate Democrats are debating lowering the Medicare eligibility age as part of the $3.5-trillion "soft" infrastructure package, at the risk of jeopardizing centrist support for a measure being pushed by Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.).

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Between the lines: While Biden didn’t initially run on expanding access to Medicare, he agreed to support lowering the age from 65 to 60 in April 2020, when his campaign worked on a unity platform with Sanders' team.

Earlier this year, a group of 150 House Democrats urged the president to include Medicare expansion in his Build Back Better agenda.

Biden did propose covering dental, vision and hearing costs in his budget, which carried over to the current infrastructure framework. That has an estimated $370 billion price tag and is in the current $3.5 trillion soft infrastructure framework.

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https://www.axios.com/dems-medicare-expansion-infrastructure-sanders-5a085562-efbc-4f7d-8747-dc77ef6c0ec2.html

[sheshe2]

1. Hmm

Between the lines: While Biden didn’t initially run on expanding access to Medicare, he agreed to support lowering the age from 65 to 60 in April 2020, when his campaign worked on a unity platform with Sanders' team.

The unity platform? Silly, look at BSes team, they don't want unity.

[dflprincess]

2. And how about Medicare covering more than 80%?

Lets cut the private insurers out.