Carrol
On 7/27/2011 1:10 PM, Bhaskar Sunkara wrote:
> Seth raises an interesting question. Anyone have an answer?
>
> http://jacobinmag.com/blog/?p=792
>
> ***
>
> Of all the appalling tidbits that leaked out of the various closed-door
> debt-ceiling negotiations of the past few months, one of the most stunning
> items was the news
> <http://www.politico.com/politico44/perm/0711/obamas_medicare_offer_58a59ec3-7121-48bc-9972-f47bb48fe6ab.html>that
> Obama had proposed raising the Medicare eligibility age from 65 to 67. Not
> only did he propose it — he was really hoping it would happen. This provoked
> a collective wail of despair from a number of bloggers and commentators.
> Paul Krugman wrote a whole
> column<http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/25/opinion/25krugman.html> about
> it.
>
> Most of the responses to the news focused on how bad the policy is. But the
> more interesting question is why Obama wanted to push it in the first place.
> Yesterday, Ezra Klein had a post titled “Why the Obama administration is
> open to raising the Medicare
> age.”<http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/ezra-klein/post/why-the-obama-administration-is-open-to-raising-the-medicare-age/2011/07/11/gIQA7sTiaI_blog.html>
> There
> are few commentators as well informed on policy and as well connected and
> sympathetic to the Obama administration, so when Klein speaks on this topic,
> we should listen. [...]
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