Roger Emge, Evansville
Today's politicians seek way off hook
On Friday, The Courier & Press published an Associated Press article that attempts to tie increasing the eligibility age for Medicare to a partial solution to the "fiscal cliff" problem.
If this would be handled in the typical U.S. government fashion, the implementation date for increasing the eligibility date would be put off until after Barack Obama has left the presidency. Thus, the earliest date for implementation would be February 2017. If it would be handled the same way the delayed Social Security date was implemented, a law would gradually increase the date by phasing in the delay by so many months per year. If they would delay that date by two months per year, beginning in 2017, it would be 12 years before the full delay would take effect.
What this would do is to give additional life to Medicare solvency concerns.
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