Wealth On Health http://wealthonhealth.com Health: Food & Nutrition Fri, 26 Aug 2011 03:59:51 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Raising Medicare\s Eligibility Age Would Increase Overall Health Spending and Shift Costs to Seni… http://wealthonhealth.com/2011/08/26/raising-medicares-eligibility-age-would-increase-overall-health-spending-and-shift-costs-to-seni/ http://wealthonhealth.com/2011/08/26/raising-medicares-eligibility-age-would-increase-overall-health-spending-and-shift-costs-to-seni/#comments Fri, 26 Aug 2011 03:59:51 +0000 admin http://wealthonhealth.com/2011/08/26/raising-medicares-eligibility-age-would-increase-overall-health-spending-and-shift-costs-to-seni/ Raising Medicare’s eligibility age from 65 to 67, which the new Joint Select Committee will likely consider this fall as a deficit-reduction measure, would not only fail to constrain health care costs across the economy; it would increase them.  While this proposal would save the federal government money, it would do so by shifting costs to most of the 65- and 66-year-olds who would lose Medicare coverage, to employers that provide health coverage for their retirees, to Medicare beneficiaries, to younger people who buy insurance through the new health insurance exchanges, and to states. The principal study of the effects of raising the Medicare eligibility age, by the Kaiser Family Foundation, estimates that its increased state and private-sector costs would be Read ahead

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