This article is a collaboration between MedPage Today and: Expanding Medicare to include people ages 60 to 64 remains a divisive issue among members of the American Medical Association House of Delegates. In total, "1.7 million Americans between ages 60 and 64 remain uninsured; another 3.8 million are on Medicaid," Rajadhar Reddy, an alternate delegate and medical student from Houston speaking on behalf of the Medical Student Section, said at a meeting of the AMA reference committee on medical service. "We have a unique opportunity in this momentous time in health reform to either expand or increase coverage for another 5.5 million people through this proposal." Reddy was explaining the section's proposal "that our American Medical Association advocate that the eligibility threshold to receive Medicare as a federal entitlement be lowered from age 65 to age 60."