As it is a plank of the Democratic Party platform, I am sure both Democratic Senate candidates in Georgia support lowering the age for Medicare eligibility to 60. This is a huge issue to folks between age 55 and 65 who continue to work just to keep their health insurance. While I am not naïve enough to believe that if Ossoff & Warnock campaigned on lowering the Medicare eligibility age from 65 to 55 that they would win a majority of over 50 white voters, I am confident it would attract enough votes from this demographic to put both Democratic Senate candidates in Georgia over the top. And it is the right thing to do.
Both candidates should already benefit from the fact that Trump voters will likely be less in number on January 5 than was the case on November 3. A wedge issue that culls off just a few percent of those typical GOP voters in Georgia is all that is needed for Democrats to win the Senate majority. Medicare eligibility may well be that issue. Ossoff and Warnock should campaign on it every day please as it will draw a sharp contrast with their GOP opponents. The only reason a lower Medicare eligibility age will not happen is if Democrats lose these two senate seats. Georgia voters will decide.
For many GOP voters in Georgia, a vote for either GOP candidate is a vote to deny yourself access to health insurance no one can take away, access that could be achieved as soon as January 2022. I hope both Jon Ossoff and Rev. Warnock will make sure voters are reminded of this each and every day between now and January 5.
Why 55 and not 60? Let 60 become the compromise.