>...There aren't any good reasons I've seen to not lower that age to 0 (i.e. covered from birth). It isn’t that simple. Medicare saves lots of money because o

>...There aren't any good reasons I've seen to not lower that age to 0 (i.e. covered from birth). It isn’t that simple. Medicare saves lots of money because of their lower reimbursement rates and many of the smaller medical practices near me won’t accept any more medicare patients. Even with that, the Part A trust fund (covers hospital costs) is expected to be completely depleted in roughly 10 years.