The Kaiser Family Foundation also reported that if the age was decreased, more than 11 million workers between sixty and sixty-four who rely on their employer-based insurance would be able to opt-in to Medicare. Lowing the eligibility age could have provided coverage to 1.6 million people between sixty and sixty-four who are currently uninsured. In addition to the expansion of Medicare to include dental and vision, the measure to lower the eligibility age to sixty was also cut. In order to cut the price tag for the package in half, many publically popular items had to be cut.
What other programs have been scrapped from the reconciliation bill?
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Progressive members of her party have stood firm in their position that they will not vote to approve the bill until the reconciliation package is brought to a vote. On Thursday, 28 October, Speaker Nancy Pelosi failed to bring the $500 billion infrastructure bill to a vote in the House for the second time.
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