Medicare and Social Security Costs? Out of Sight, Out of Mind
Here are two words that seem to be slipping from the Washington vernacular: entitlement reform.
There was a time, not so long ago, when both parties were at least paying lip service to the idea that the giant Social Security and Medicare entitlement programs—their long-term solvency in peril, their contributions to long-term deficit and debt daunting—needed to be adjusted before they either broke the bank or failed future retirees.