Raise the eligibility age and requiring higher-income seniors to pay more of their medical costs would keep Medicare from having to cut access to care for seniors.
Obamacare is funded partly by cuts in "disproportionate care" subsidies to safety-net hospitals. This will make it harder for them to care for the poor in states that are opting to not expand Medicaid.
John C. Goodman, Ph.D. is Research Fellow at The Independent Institute; President in National Center for Policy Analysis, & author of Priceless: Curing the Healthcare Crisis.