Medicare at 50 Act reintroduced

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Sarcany wrote:
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Not sure why we would need to extended it beyond retirement age. You should be working till you are 65 unless you have a disability or other qualifying event in which case you would be eligible for that reason.

Minimum-wage workers and contractors who have to buy in to nearly-useless just-for-show high-deductible plans (if they have any opportunity at all for healthcare from their employers) would probably disagree.
And, you never know what plans will be available from year to year and if you will have to switch providers and doctors every year. I could not buy anything but an HMO plan one year, while I was working part time and could not get employer health insurance.
I was FINALLY able to get hired full time. When I had to resign last year because of Covid and my husband's health issues, I had to start paying the full cost for my COBRA plan. It was a much better plan than I could purchase on the open market and it cost less. All I ever wanted was to be able to PURCHASE a DECENT plan at a reasonable cost. It was like looking for a purple unicorn.
I would not have ever expected to be provided medicare early for free, but hell yeah I would have jumped on being able to buy into a stable plan at a reasonable cost that didn't make me upend my life every year with no idea what plan or doctors I might have.