Why Are Politicians Ignoring The Elderly?
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by John Goodman,
Everyone knows that seniors turn out to vote at a higher rate than any other age group. In 2020, three-fourths of the people over the age of 65 voted, while the voting booths attracted barely half of those aged 18 to 24.
Yet in the last election you would be hard-pressed to find a candidate – Republican or Democrat — who made the slightest attempt to address the issues that most affect older voters.
On the eve of the election, President Biden promised to cancel upwards of a trillion dollars in student loans. Doesn’t somebody have to pay for that? Furthermore, Congressional Democrats stuck it to seniors in the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) by removing billions of dollars in federal support for Medicare. Both the Congressional Budget Office and private analysts predict that the elderly and the disabled will face higher Part D premiums and higher drug prices at the pharmacy as a result.
It’s as though the entire Democratic Party was competing for younger voters and shunning older ones. Yet voters who expected to hear better ideas from Republicans faced disappointment there as well.
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