ANALYSIS: Medical Freedom Advocate Evaluates Presidential Candidates’ Stance on Medicare, Its History, and Where It’s Headed

Published on December 9, 2023

News Analysis How the 2024 presidential candidates will handle Medicare could be critical to changing the course of the country’s troubled health care system, which is currently facing a bleak future. Twila Brase, a nurse and co-founder of the Minnesota-headquartered medical freedom advocacy organization Citizens’ Council for Health Freedom and founder of The Wedge of Health Freedom, shared with The Epoch Times her analysis of the presidential candidates’ positions. Since its inception in 1965, Medicare enrollees have increased from 21 million in 1972 to 65 million in 2022. Projected to reach 88 million in 30 years, increased enrollment is charged by a growing number of older Americans. “There are currently 60 million people aged 65 and older, and that number is projected to increase by 43 percent over the next three decades,” according to a Peter G. Peterson Foundation (PPF) report. ...

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