Raising the Medicare Age Makes Health Care More Expensive

Here’s Austin Frakt’s FAQ from last year on why it really is the worst idea ever:

• Why it costs two times more to raise the Medicare age from 65 to 67
• Why it is bad for health, regressive, and requires the ACA to be fully in effect
• Why the liberal case for it is weak
• What it means for certain, large unions
• Why the federal savings are actually very small
• A podcast on this topic