Comments on: A Few More Thoughts on the Bad Idea of Raising the Medicare Eligibility Age http://jaredbernsteinblog.com/a-few-more-thoughts-on-the-bad-idea-of-raising-the-medicare-eligibility-age/ Facts, Thoughts, and Commentary Wed, 22 May 2013 14:18:48 +0000 hourly 1 By: Jill SH http://jaredbernsteinblog.com/a-few-more-thoughts-on-the-bad-idea-of-raising-the-medicare-eligibility-age/#comment-363264 Jill SH Fri, 30 Nov 2012 10:29:04 +0000 http://jaredbernsteinblog.com/?p=7129#comment-363264 Did I ever tell you about a friend I had back in the 70s who had worked for Connecticut Public TV doing the graphics (back in the old days when we used Presstype) and lived in mortal fear of leaving the L out of Public?

]]> By: Sue http://jaredbernsteinblog.com/a-few-more-thoughts-on-the-bad-idea-of-raising-the-medicare-eligibility-age/#comment-363018 Sue Fri, 30 Nov 2012 05:13:01 +0000 http://jaredbernsteinblog.com/?p=7129#comment-363018 “this well-done NPR story too”

Yes, I really thought that Julie Rovner’s part of this story was well-done, though the introduction to the story (about 30 seconds in) says that “one popular proposal…” is to raise the Medicare eligibility age. With whom is this idea popular? Certainly not with the American people, as this poll clearly shows:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/page/2010-2019/WashingtonPost/2012/11/28/National-Politics/Polling/question_9226.xml?uuid=C0dayjlSEeKSWKx8eNXGgA

Even Republicans don’t like this idea, by a WIDE margin. I guess it’s popular with Republican politicians, but that seems to be about it…

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