It is not enough to treat the symptoms of the Medicare problem. Tomeet the emerging needs of the baby-boom generation, Congress andthe Administration should take steps soon to create a newcompetitive system modeled after the FEHBP, the successful programthat covers themselves and their families.
President Bush, in developing his own legislative reform proposalfor Medicare, can build on the best of the Breaux-Frist proposals,which promise a good start to this year's debate on Medicarereform.
leading question bold choice. tax increaseses for the wealthy popular, preserving medicare, popular. let me add on to it. please do not talk about locusts are going to descend from the heavens and eat flesh from middle class americans. doesn t he represent some of the problems? not nothing has happened because of paul ryan and like-minded people, nancy pelosi and harry reid and barack obama are committed to cutting the deficit more than they would be. the terms of the debate since 2009 into the mid terms has been how do we reduce the deficit and paul ryan has been a leader in putting that pressure on. and sorry. we still got a real question about whether the congress, either this one or something like it, will do any of this. remember we there was a failed grand bargain. ryan was, you know, speaker boehner was sort of kind about ryan but doesn t throw his arms around the budget. right. and ryan himself dissented from simpson-bowles.