WHY CONGRESS MUST LOWER THE MEDICARE AGE
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Thom Hartmann
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🗓️ 31 July 2021
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
Congress must lower the Medicare age to save the lives of older Americans. Why does turning 65 mark such a visible transition point in preventing illness and death? The answer is simple: Medicare. Board Chair of Our Revolution, Larry Cohen joins Thom to discuss the perfect storm about to hit Medicare. Congressman Ro Khanna answers listener questions in a Progressive Town Hall Meeting.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Tom Harbin program. |
| 0:20.4 | So what do we do with Medicare? |
| 0:23.0 | How do we move forward toward Medicare for all? |
| 0:26.4 | How do we improve the system as it were on the line with us? |
| 0:29.9 | What is our old buddy, the board chair of our revolution.com, Larry Cohen, |
| 0:34.5 | fast president of the communication workers of America, the board chair of the democracy |
| 0:38.8 | initiative as well. |
| 0:40.1 | Larry, welcome back. |
| 0:41.1 | Tell us about this whole lower in the Medicare age thing. |
| 0:43.8 | Yeah, great to hear you. |
| 0:45.8 | Yeah, so led by the progressive caucus in the house, 165 roughly house Democrats have |
| 0:52.6 | signed on to expanding Medicare. |
| 0:56.0 | And three things. |
| 0:57.0 | Number one, lowering the age to 60 from 65, covering the most vulnerable people who now |
| 1:02.3 | often have terrible or no health care. |
| 1:04.9 | Secondly, a really radical idea that Medicare Medicaid should be able to negotiate farmer |
| 1:09.7 | prices the same way the veterans administration health agency does. |
| 1:14.1 | That would cut farmer prices, shoppingly 40% on average. |
| 1:18.5 | Wow. |
| 1:19.5 | That's how much they're ripping us off. |
| 1:21.1 | Yeah, we would take it to the price of people in every other country in the world, |
| 1:24.9 | Canada and everywhere else, 40% more we pay, and farmer would tell us, well, that's |
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