AMA Delegates Tussle Over Lowering Medicare Eligibility Age to 60
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 ...