{"id":25397,"date":"2026-01-06T09:03:28","date_gmt":"2026-01-06T14:03:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=25397"},"modified":"2026-01-06T09:04:16","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T14:04:16","slug":"should-medicare-eligibility-age-be-raised","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=25397","title":{"rendered":"Should Medicare eligibility age be raised?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Should the Medicare eligibility age be raised, like the Social Security age? That is a question that has been gaining momentum, especially since the Medicare Trust Fund is projected to face insolvency in 2034. Robert Bloink and William H. Byrnes, with opposing views, share their opinions on proposals to increase the Medicare eligibility age. Read their debate <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thinkadvisor.com\/2026\/01\/05\/debate-should-medicares-eligibility-age-be-raised-to-67\/?amp=1\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.thinkadvisor.com\/2026\/01\/05\/debate-should-medicares-eligibility-age-be-raised-to-67\/?amp=1\">here\u2026<\/a><\/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>Should the Medicare eligibility age be raised, like the Social Security age? That is a question that has been gaining<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":7817,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,6],"tags":[80,61,94],"class_list":["post-25397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cms","category-medicare-general","tag-cms","tag-medicare","tag-older-adults"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25397","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=25397"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25397\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25400,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25397\/revisions\/25400"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}