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Former Democratic Sen. John Breaux made a proposal which supports raising the Medicare eligibility age. [http://www.factcheck.org/overspiced_louisiana_gumbo.html]
Medicare accounts for more than one-fifth of all health spending in the U.S.. Its costs per beneficiary, about $12,000 in 20092008, rose at an average annual rate of 8.5% a year from 1970 to 2007.
==Medicaid==
Medicare is entirely separate from [[Medicaid]], a federal progarm that provides health benefits for poor people without isurance.
