Riffing off the previous, lowering---not raising---the Medicare eligibility age would save a lot of money!
[I]t is also useful to consider that employer-provided health insurance is heavily subsidized through the tax code. A premium reduction equal to the average tax subsidy paid today by the federal government for employer-based health care would reduce the cost of Medicare buy-in by 30 to 50 percent---and by more if the subsidy was limited to eligible enrollees earning less than 200 percent of poverty.
Kindly make sure Team Democrat puts it on the table for discussion, assuming they haven't yet caved.
---Baron V
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