{"id":25324,"date":"2025-12-23T11:16:55","date_gmt":"2025-12-23T16:16:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=25324"},"modified":"2025-12-23T11:16:57","modified_gmt":"2025-12-23T16:16:57","slug":"changing-medicare-eligibility-to-67","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=25324","title":{"rendered":"Changing Medicare eligibility to 67"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Medicare is the primary form of health insurance for older adults in the U.S. Provided by the federal government, Medicare helps cover the health care costs of people at least 65 years old, as well as those with certain disabilities. A new paper by the Urban Institute suggests that increasing the Medicare eligibility age from 65 to 67 would save the Medicare program $41 billion per year. Allison Bell, writing for Think Advisor, on the Urban Institute\u2019s analysis of the idea of increasing the eligibility age by two years. \u00a0Read Ms. Bell\u2019s article and slide show\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thinkadvisor.com\/2025\/12\/22\/5-things-to-know-about-pushing-the-medicare-eligibility-age-to-67\/\">here\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"120\" class=\"wp-image-9838\" style=\"width: 150px;\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/iStock_000025513411Small-700x559-medicare.jpg\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/iStock_000025513411Small-700x559-medicare.jpg 700w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/iStock_000025513411Small-700x559-medicare-300x240.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\"><strong>Notice:<\/strong>\u00a0The link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid on the posted date; medicarereport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the link\u2019s validity. Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Medicare is the primary form of health insurance for older adults in the U.S. Provided by the federal government, Medicare<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,21,20,6],"tags":[80,238,884,61,94],"class_list":["post-25324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cms","category-health-care-finance","category-health-care-redesign","category-medicare-general","tag-cms","tag-healthcare-finance","tag-healthcare-redesign","tag-medicare","tag-older-adults"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25324","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25324"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25324\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25325,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25324\/revisions\/25325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}