Democrats on Wednesday unveiled a bill that would let people buy into Medicare beginning at age 50, casting the provision as an expansion of Obamacare.

“This is the first major improvement to the Affordable Care Act,” said Rep. Brian Higgins, D-N.Y., using the formal name for Obamacare. “The one fundamental flaw that there was, not because of fact but because of politics, was the lack of a public option.”

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