GOP proposal to raise Medicare eligibility age is unpopular with voters, says our new poll.
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When a candidate promises to “save these programs for future generations” by raising the retirement age, raising the Medicare eligibility age, privatizing Social Security, changing the COLA formula and means-testing Social Security while exempting near retirees what they’re actually saying is: “We know seniors vote so we’ll protect them now and slash future benefits for their children and grandchildren instead.
via Entitled to Know.
In a New Hampshire speech, New Jersey’s GOP governor proposed an overhaul of Social Security, Medicaid and Medicare that would reduce benefits for some retired seniors, eliminating them entirely for individuals with income over $200,000 and raising the retirement age to 69.
via NJ Today.
This isn’t anything new. Christie is very vocal when it comes to earned benefits.
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Republican presidential candidates’ rationale for raising the retirement age, that we’re all living longer, holds true for those with multiple diplomas, homes in safe neighborhoods and a plan for golden-age leisure. In other words, for the wealthy.
via Bloomberg.
Presidential Candidates Who Have Proposed Raising the Retirement Age:
Gov. Jeb Bush
Gov. Chris Christie
Dr. Ben Carson
Donald Trump
Carly Fiorina
Sen. Rand Paul
Sen. Ted Cruz
Sen. Marco Rubio
Gov. Mike Huckabee
Raising the Retirement Age IS a benefit cut.
Deficit hawks likely will pressure the White House to accept cuts in Social Security and Medicare for future retirees, protecting those already retired or close to it. Their political goal will be to defang public opposition, since younger workers tend not to focus much on retirement when it is several decades away.
But that approach is not going to work. Retirees and their advocacy groups will fiercely resist cutting benefits down the road, because they understand the critical importance of Social Security and Medicare benefits. They also care about the future retirement of their own children. And numerous polls show that the public opposes benefit cuts - a view that is common across all demographic groups and political affiliations.
via Reuters.
Related Reading:
- New Poll Shows Majorities Do Not Support GOP Proposals for Social Security and Medicare.
- In the poll of likely voters, 79% favor increasing Social Security
benefits — and funding that increase by having wealthy Americans pay
the same rate into Social Security as everyone else. Seventy-seven
percent oppose raising the Social Security retirement age to 69, and a
whopping 93% favor allowing Medicare to negotiate to bring down the
price of prescription drugs.
Gov. Scott Walker uses Generational Warfare as a tactic to make it “okay” to raise the retirement age which is a benefit cut.
It’s a big Ponzi scheme…we need to gradually increase the age at which you can receive benefits.
During these next few months, we’ll be profiling potential and current Presidential Candidates and their future plans for Social Security & Medicare.
Today, we concentrate on Jeb Bush and his comments on raising the retirement age which is a benefit cut.
Raising the age at which you can claim Medicare benefits by a year or two, for example, lops off a far larger share of the expected retirement period of a poor person than a rich one.
via VOX.
Related Reading:
- Raising the Social Security Retirement Age: A Cut in Benefits for Future Retirees.
- Those policymakers proposing raising Social Security’s retirement age
should recognize what a dramatic change this would be for millions of
American workers. Instead of protecting future generations, raising the
retirement age will dramatically cut benefits for younger generations of
workers, especially those at lower-income levels.
When you hear a politician start a sentence with the phrase “We’re all living longer,” grab your wallet. You are about to be told that Social Security or Medicare benefits should be cut because of America’s rising longevity…
…Researchers engaged by the nonprofit advocacy group National Committee to Preserve Social Security and Medicare Foundation found that the uninsured rate in the 65-66 age band would jump from nearly zero today to 18.7 percent - even if the Affordable Care Act (ACA) remains in place and the law’s Medicaid coverage were expanded to this age group.
via Reuters.
Related Reading:
- New Poll Shows Majorities Do Not Support GOP Proposals for Social Security and Medicare.
- Seventy-seven percent oppose raising the Social Security retirement age
to 69, and a whopping 93% favor allowing Medicare to negotiate to bring
down the price of prescription drugs.