Senate Mulls Lowering Age For Medicare Coverage

A proposal is circulating the Senate that would lower the age for citizens to become eligible to receive Medicare.

 WASHINGTON, D.C. — A proposal is circulating the Senate that would lower the age for citizens to become eligible to receive Medicare.

This Medicare expasion to 55-year-old citizens comes among the myriad of healthcare reforms on Capitol Hill.

The idea is being floating in order to quell liberals who would rather see implemented the so-called “public option” for national insurance coverage.

Earlier this month, Senate Democrats mulled axing a public, non-profit plan with one operated by for-profit, private insurers but overseen by a federal agency, the Office of Personnel Management.

Lowering the Medicare eligibility age from 65 has been a goal for liberals for some time since the program is one of the most popular government-run institutions in the country.

However, the discussion for Medicare expansion has always stumbled over its possible cost to taxpayers.

Republicans, according to one Democratic health care strategist on Huffington Post, will not buy into such a proposal.

“And for progressives, well, it’s not much of an olive branch. It doesn’t solve the problem [of reforming the private industry],” the strategist said.