11-17-2016, 10:09 PM
(11-17-2016, 03:00 PM)Benton Wrote: Maybe I'm wrong, but I thought you had to be 65 unless you met the few exceptions?
My thought is they'll reduce benefits marginally so that more people have to get gap coverage, and they'll up the years to 68 or 69. Insurance companies get a nice bump for their lobby dollars, and Republicans can claim they "saved" Medicare. Ryan has already been laying that groundwork. Much like how they screwed up the Postal Service by claiming it was going broke and that it needed saving.
I'm still salty about that one as they closed our local distribution center to save about $60,000 a year, but now it takes 6 days to mail something about 20 miles.
The 55 age is so they won't lose the support of the older voters that are approaching Medicare age and haven't prepared for a different system.
