I love that commercial where a bunch of small business executives are sitting around the table trying to find budget cuts, when the CEO says, “we aren’t leaving until we find the savings,” and a woman says under her breath, “can they really do that?”
We need a Medicare Commission where the members are forced to stay in the room and figure out a compromise that passes both the House and the Senate.
In 1981, Ronald Reagan, with the cooperation of Tip O’Neill and Howard Baker, appointed Alan Greenspan to head a Commission that’s mission was to save a Social Security program that was about to go bankrupt.
Bob Dole was on the Commission as was Daniel Patrick Moynihan, the two guys most liable to cut a deal, while Bill Archer and Claude Pepper, the two guys least likely to cut a deal, were also appointed. The Commission included consultants, a trade association President, an insurance executive, a labor boss, and a scholar named Robert Ball.
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