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<DIV><B>Subject:</B> Don't you dare raise the Medicare eligibility
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<P style="MARGIN: 1em 0px">Dear David,</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 1em 0px">The Washington Post reported Friday
that the major Democratic concession in fiscal cliff talks is
likely to be raising the Medicare eligibility age from 65 to
67. <SUP>1</SUP></P>
<P><B>This is unacceptable. We should be lowering the Medicare
eligibility age, not raising it.</B></P>
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President Obama and Congressional Leadership: Don't accept any
deal that raises the Medicare eligibility age or cuts
benefits. Click here to automatically sign this
petition.</B></A></P>
<P>Of course the real solution to our health care crisis is to
expand Medicare to all. Medicare covers 40 million Americans
over the age of 65, providing quality care at prices that are
much lower than the private market. We should expand it so
that it covers everybody.</P>
<P>Inside the beltway in Washington DC, politicians who enjoy
lifetime pensions and fantastic health care coverage are busy
bargaining away a cornerstone of our social safety net. And
for what? To appease the corporations and wealthy Americans
who many of our representatives see as their most important
constituency.</P>
<P>These politicians need a wake up call. They need to hear
from people all across the U.S. that we will not let them take
away Medicare benefits.</P>
<P style="OVERFLOW: hidden"><A
href="http://act.credoaction.com/r/?r=6993415&p=medicare_eligibility&id=51812-6091082-UAHd5Xx&t=9"><B>Tell
President Obama and Congressional Leadership: Don't accept any
deal that raises the Medicare eligibility age or cuts
benefits. Click here to automatically sign this
petition.</B></A></P>
<P>Health care in the U.S. is already expensive. Saving money
by cutting Medicare benefits does nothing more than shift the
cost of necessary medical care onto the backs of people who
might not be able to pay for it. Raising the Medicare
eligibility age is one of the most wrongheaded things Congress
and the White House could do. No deal is better than a bad
deal. And we must reject any deal that contains cuts to Social
Security, Medicaid or Medicare benefits.</P>
<P>It could be that this is just another trial balloon from DC
insiders. But it could also be the shape of the deal that is
soon to come. In either case, we need to shoot down this
terrible idea, and do it decisively.</P>
<P><B>Paul Krugman, reacting to the news, wrote on his blog:
"If anyone in the White House is seriously thinking along
these lines, please stop it right now."</B><SUP>2</SUP></P>
<P>We couldn't agree more.</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 1em 0px">Click below to automatically sign
the petition: <BR><B><A
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<P style="MARGIN: 1em 0px"><B>Thank you</B> for helping us
hold the line on Social Security, Medicaid and Medicare
benefits.</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 1em 0px">Becky Bond, Political Director
<BR><A
href="http://act.credoaction.com/r/?r=11&id=51812-6091082-UAHd5Xx&t=11">CREDO
Action from Working Assets </A></P>
<P style="FONT-SIZE: 11px">1. "<A
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fiscal cliff deal comes clearer: a 37% top tax rate and a
higher Medicare eligibility age</A>", Washington Post, Dec. 7,
2012. <BR>2. "<A
href="http://act.credoaction.com/r/?r=6993417&id=51812-6091082-UAHd5Xx&t=13">I
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