Biden’s Health Play In A COVID-19 Economy: Lower Medicare’s Eligibility Age To 60

Former Vice President Joe Biden at a press conference in Wilmington, Del., in mid-March. His bid this week to allow 60-year-olds to get Medicare "reflects the reality," he says, "that, even after the current crisis ends, older Americans are likely to find it difficult to secure jobs."

Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden proposes letting 60-year-olds enroll in Medicare. He’d pay for the expansion out of general tax revenue, he says, not the Medicare fund.

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