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. 2024 Mar 12;331(10):882-884.
doi: 10.1001/jama.2024.0379.

Medicare Eligibility and Reported Support for Proposals to Expand Medicare

Nolan M Kavanagh  1 , Andrea L Campbell  2 , Adrianna McIntyre  3
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Medicare Eligibility and Reported Support for Proposals to Expand Medicare

Nolan M Kavanagh et al. JAMA. .
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This study estimates the association between Medicare eligibility and support for recent proposals to expand program participation and benefits.

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Conflict of Interest Disclosures: None reported.

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Figure.. Public Insurance Coverage and Support for Proposals to Expand Medicare by Age
Binned scatterplots of unweighted, pooled responses to the 2018-2022 waves of the Cooperative Election Study. Each outcome was polled in the indicated years. The dashed lines indicate 65 years of age (ie, the age of Medicare eligibility for most US adults). Respondents who turned 65 years of age during the survey year were excluded. We also did not graph respondents older than 90 years due to sparse data. For illustration, global fourth-order polynomial models were fitted on either side of 65 years of age to help visualize age trends in the outcomes. Meanwhile, the main statistical models in the Table used local linear regressions with data-driven mean squared error-optimal bandwidths (ie, age ranges). The total numbers of US adults (ie, full sample minus those aged 65 years) with valid data for each outcome are 220 728, 220 388, 17 540, 77 377, and 118 589, respectively.
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