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View from Away: There is momentum for expanding Medicare to those younger than 65
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In the days preceding President Joe Biden’s release of his $1 trillion American Families Plan, Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, and several of his Democratic colleagues lobbied for it to include a provision he has been introducing and reintroducing for years the option to buy into Medicare at age 50.
The efforts were for naught. So far.
Instead, the Biden administration has proposed extending the health insurance tax benefits that were approved as part of the last coronavirus relief measure. And though his campaign messaging had supported expansion of Medicare to scoop in people as young as 60, that proposal was absent from the $1 trillion plan.
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