America's seniors have already made their sacrifices. They weathered the Depression. They fought and won World War II. They raised us. As our 39 million elderly citizens enter the twilight of their lives, we must keep faith with them by maximizing choice of coverage and quality of care.
Medicare must be redesigned, but herding seniors into a socialized system dominated by HMOs and brokered by a Big Business, Big Government partnership is not the answer. Neither is the irrational Clinton-Gore proposal to massively expand a program already on life-support.
The best way to cure all that ails Medicare is to allow American workers to save and invest their Medicare taxes in personal investment or insurance accounts to provide for health care after they retire. Government bureaucracy will not ration their benefits and a third-party will not manage their care.
Instead, this less costly, privately controlled, competition-driven alternative will empower seniors to make their own health care decisions and support our American ideals of free choice, free markets, and the sanctity of each and every human life.
