Dramatic Improvement or Death Spiral — Two Members of Congress Assess the Medicare Bill

Abstract

The Journal asked Representative Bill Thomas (R-Calif.), chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, and Senator Edward M. Kennedy (D-Mass.), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee, to respond to the following question: “If you were to rewrite the recently passed Medicare bill, how would you change it?” Their responses follow. . .