Extending this successful program [Medicare] to those between 55 and 64, a plan I proposed in July, would be the largest expansion of Medicare in 44 years and would perhaps get us on the path to a single payer model
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The proposal to extend medicare eligibility to 55 and increase medicaid in lieu of a public option really is a reasonable proposal. Some progressives are going to insist that anything that doesn’t include a robust public option is a betrayal—but in my view a medicare/medicaid expansion is significantly more progressive.
