By lambert strether of Corrente.

Paul Jay of Real News Network interviews Jamie Galbraith. Yves published part 1 of this interview last week.



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As Yves said, you should share this with all your friends. This passage caught my eye:

[GALBRAITH:] If, for example, [incompr.] suggestion which has been in the news, you raise the eligibility age for Medicare, then what you’re doing is privatizing it in part. What you’re saying is that people who have employer-based insurance or other forms of private insurance have to hang on to that when they’re 66 and into, say, 67 [incompr.] they hit the age when they can shrug it off and get onto Medicare. That’s privatization. That’s what it is. And I think that should also be off the table.

I like how Galbraith frames raising the Medicare eligibility age as a form of stealth privatization, which also has the great merit of being true.