For years, the political left has suggested lowering the age of eligibility for Medicare enrollment. Rather than advocate for a single-payer health care system, lowering the age of Medicare eligibility is simply an incremental step toward the left’s goal of a complete government-run system. Incremental steps, including Obamacare, continue to move the U.S. closer to a single-payer plan.

The most recent proposal would drop the age of Medicare eligibility to 60 years of age. Researchers at Politico have made estimates of the impact of this move. Overall, 23 million Americans would potentially  wind up in the Medicare expansion – 13.4M now enrolled in employer-paid health insurance, 3.8M from Medicaid rolls, 3.2M who now have individual health insurance plans, and the remainder who are now uninsured.