Raising Medicare Age Will Actually Cost Us $5 Billion

Yes, cost it money. Let me explain.

If we drop 65 and 66-year-olds from Medicare, obviously that will mean the federal government is going to spend less on the program overall. They’ll save something to the tune of about $33.1 billion. But, they’ll be losing the premiums that those people paid for Medicare (about $9 billion), so that means the overall federal Medicare savings is $24.1 billion.

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