It’s hard to blame employers for doing this when they are required by law under the ACA to provide medical insurance for their employees. This stupid provision makes an older employee an enormous cost burden for an employer, which more than offsets the valuable experience that employee brings in comparison to younger workers.
Need to fact-check this, sir or madam. My $DAYJOB was recently bought out, and the benefits all changed. The health insurance that the new folks offered was not accepted by my doctors. So I fired up Medicare (which they did accept), and the HR people pay the dollar equivalent of the insurance for the "average" employee. I'm over 62, the age of the average employee is 29. Problem solved.
Once you’re old enough for Medicare all bets are off. You actually become a prized resource in that case for many employers — because they DON’T have to pay the cost of a full medical plan for you!
Pay whom? How did you "fire up" Medicare before age 65?