Raise the Medicare-eligible Age to 67

Gradually raising the eligibility for Medicare to 67 would save the government more than $100 billion over the next decade, according to the Congressional Budget Office. In addition, raising the eligibility age would also reduce some of the cost shifting from seniors to young people by making more seniors pay into the private health care plans that already subsidize Medicare's low cost by paying more for the same health care services Medicare gets at a discounted rate.