How would lowering the Medicare age save the system money?

[CTyankee]

28. I am no expert on Medicare but it seems to me that you are making a case for Medicare for all

starting at birth, where they have appropriate health care all along. By the time people get to the age category you are dealing with, under our system, they could typically be sicker or more limited physically. That is a problem. By limiting your scope to this one demographic and under our current system, you face a number of problems you wouldn't have if there had been Medicare for them seamlessly all along.

I agree with you that Medicare needs adjustments in how it is run, but once you squeeze out the waste, fraud and abuse you have a much more workable and affordable system. We should be working towards THAT rather than immediately jumping to cutting benefits to beneficiaries.

Again and again I have read that medicare provides health care more efficiently and at lower costs than our system where $$ are skimmed off by health insurance companies who are interested in making a profit, not primarily seeing to it that people get good health care. The idea that those companies are working for its insurees benefit is absurd. And so is our system.