How about raising the Medicare age on the top one percent?

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96. Doesn't this

"If you kick the youngest (age 65) healthiest people out of the Medicare pool, you are not just hurting those people, you are hurting all of us and weakening Medicare. To strengthen Medicare we should lower the age to bring in healthier people. The strongest Medicare system would be one that included everybody. The more you shrink the pool, the more you weaken it."

...argument apply to raising the age to 68 for everyone? It will capture many one percenters.

"The very wealthy (1%) do not need Medicare at all. But by them being in the risk pool and paying premiums it benefits everybody. "

That's absurd (wealthy people get sick too), but again, how does raising the overall Medicare eligibility age to 68 prevent this?

The reason it's absurd is that a few people seem to be basing the argument against raising the Medicare age on the top one percent on: a) the claim that they don't need or use Medicare and b) the amount they pay in premiums.

The fact is that the argument about moving the healthiest people out of Medicare applies even if the age is raised on everyone, not just the top one percent.