{"id":848785,"date":"2026-09-15T16:30:07","date_gmt":"2026-09-15T16:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/848785\/"},"modified":"2026-09-15T16:30:07","modified_gmt":"2026-09-15T16:30:07","slug":"lowering-medicare-eligibility-age-would-be-a-lifeline-for-ohioans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/848785\/","title":{"rendered":"Lowering Medicare eligibility age would be a lifeline for Ohioans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"Y5DM4MAT5NEMXIQJHZCHSD4E6Y\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">Last week we learned that if Democrats retake Congress this November, they plan to move fast to address skyrocketing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/business\/2026\/09\/03\/health-care-affordability-leads-democrats-agenda-they-seek-take-congress\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">healthcare costs<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"VMG3MYXGKNDQZMQTGANROUIKXI\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">This plan appears to center on three priorities: undoing punishing Medicaid cuts passed as part of the Orwellian-named One Big Beautiful Bill, bringing back Affordable Care Act subsidies, and considering moving up the Medicare age of eligibility. For Ohioans, this isn\u2019t an abstract debate. At issue is whether a person in their early 60s can quit a job they hate, retire when they planned to, or \u2013 and most importantly \u2013 survive being laid off without draining their savings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Last week we learned that if Democrats retake Congress this November, they plan to move fast to address&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":848786,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[59],"tags":[97,252,253],"class_list":["post-848785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health-care","tag-health","tag-health-care","tag-healthcare"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/848785","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=848785"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/848785\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/848786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=848785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=848785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=848785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}