Executive Council Statement
Medicare Reform
… three decades, Medicare has been the cornerstone of health security for the nation's elderly. Medicare was created in 1965 to address a crisis among older Americans: at the very moment in their lives when health care needs were rising and incomes … solvency, through a combination of new resources and costs-savings measures, and improve benefits. While the Commission's work is not complete, Co-Chairman John Breaux is advocating radical reform--"premium support"-- that would fundamentally … Clinton, which aim at maintaining and strengthening a strong and effective publicly administered program , point in the right direction. Dedicating 15 percent of the budget surplus over the next 15 years to shoring up the Medicare Trust Fund, as …