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I think that Mike Leavitt, U.S. secretary of health and human services, is right in that shoring-up Medicare could be "the ugliest political issue the country will face." However, I think he focused too much on the political 'spin' of when the Medicare trust fund goes insolvent and on hypothetical projections of it coming apart from "inertia." Whoa. Whoa. If funding is allocated and it if is not tampered with or diverted for politicians' pet pork-barrel projects, Medicare will survive. Our country needs to have a sound monetary policy which fosters a strong and stable dollar.
I wish that several of the President's Cabinet would come together and pull up their chairs to discuss ways to get this country back on a firm footing. The Secretaries of Energy, Interior, Transportation, and Labor need to highlight how today's spiraling gasoline prices adversely affect people commuting to and from their workplaces.
To be sure, the debates over Medicare's future are ugly, but unless we have Cabinet Members brainstorming to come up with meaningful proposals to give to the President, our country will be bogged-down by inaction.
•James A. Marples,
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