- Biden, Seeking Democratic Unity, Reaches Left Toward Sanders’s Ideas: Looking to appeal to Bernie Sanders’s supporters, Joe Biden announced proposals to lower the eligibility age for Medicare to 60 and to expand student debt forgiveness programs. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/09/us/politics/biden-sanders-medicare-student-debt.html?campaign_id=57&emc=edit_ne_20200409&instance_id=17517&nl=evening-briefing&regi_id=68337520&segment_id=24555&te=1&user_id=b6e55f6f6979146395b2946f4fb0e01e 55 comments politics