Potential Implications of Lowering the Medicare Eligibility Age to 60

JAMA. 2020 Jun 23;323(24):2472-2473. doi: 10.1001/jama.2020.7245.

Author

Zirui Song^{1

2}

Affiliations

¹ Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts.
² Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston.

PMID: 32469394
DOI: 10.1001/jama.2020.7245

No abstract available

MeSH terms

Age Factors
Aged
Betacoronavirus
COVID-19
Coronavirus Infections / economics
Coronavirus Infections / epidemiology
Cost Savings / economics
Eligibility Determination* / economics
Financing, Government / economics*
Health Benefit Plans, Employee / economics
Health Care Costs / statistics & numerical data
Humans
Insurance Coverage / economics
Insurance Coverage / statistics & numerical data
Medicaid / economics
Medicare / economics*
Middle Aged
Pandemics / economics
Pneumonia, Viral / economics
Pneumonia, Viral / epidemiology
Private Sector
Retirement
SARS-CoV-2
Social Security / economics
United States