The Medicare Trustees, including members of President Clinton's cabinet, reported that Medicare's Part A Trust Fund will be bankrupt by the year 2001. If that happens, seniors will lose their hospital coverage. The Trust Fund pays the hospital portion of 37 million seniors' Medicare bills. For two years, since the Trust Fund started spending more than it took in, I've fought to find a way to reform Medicare without gimmicks or tax increases.
Seniors deserve more than politics as usual.
They deserve the peace of mind that will come from an honest solution. Hopefully, this year will produce that solution.