Hey liberals: Cutting Social Security and Medicare is wrong no matter who does it.

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71. Well for one thing...

We don't know what the bargain will be at the end of the day. Just assuming a doomsday scenario doesn't help anything. Raising the eligibility age for Medicare, however, is not as bad with Obamacare as without it. I say this as a 63 year old person without much left in the way of retirement resources, so this matters a lot to me. In the event that I can't work until I'm 66 or older this will directly affect me, so I'm not making light of it at all. Medicare eligibilty has always been tied to the age at which you can receive full retirement benefits (unless you're on Social Security Disability). Now, as the full benefits age is gradually increasing, the Medicare age is remaining at 65. As it should, but if there absolutely has to be give on this, Obamacare probably makes it a much less catastrophic measure, because subsidies would then be available to you for the interim period. The Kaiser calculator gives you an idea of what that would be.

http://healthreform.kff.org/SubsidyCalculator.aspx

Now I don't know what part of what bargain the Obama would accept, and neither does the OP. The election may have changed things in our favor, so I'm willing to see what happens, but it's clear to me that Obamacare makes possible changes a lot more palatable. And of course, raising the cap should be on the table along with any other changes to SS/Medicare.