Saving Security

How to save Social Security:

Overall, the solution is straightforward: Return Medicare to its medical insurance roots and focus on improving health benefits. Medicare regulators should add up all the costs of the program’s non-health benefits, eliminate those with no medical value, and use the savings to reduce medical and prescription drug costs. Social needs like housing and food insecurity are important but unrelated to medical insurance. They should be addressed through targeted anti-poverty programs, not by siphoning Medicare funds.

the best way to beat a boondoggle is to get rid of its causes...