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Jeffries backs lowering Medicare’s eligibility age and expanding the program

At a conference in Denver, House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries endorsed efforts to lower Medicare’s eligibility age and expand the program, The Hill reports. The report describes general support, not an endorsement of Bernie Sanders’s specific age-55 proposal or Tammy Baldwin’s separate buy-in bill. It places Jeffries’s support amid internal tensions over the progressive push for Medicare for All. He has backed expansion as a goal, but Democrats still haven’t settled which version to pursue.

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