Jon L. Christensen: “despite liberal attempts to hide the truth, the word is out. The American people have learned that our precious Medicare…”

“despite liberal attempts to hide the truth, the word is out. The American people have learned that our precious Medicare system is going broke. It is clear that unless important actions are taken, Medicare will be belly-up in the year 2002. We are not going to let that happen. We are going to save Medicare and strengthen it--giving our seniors more options and more choices. One option we should give seniors is a Medical Savings Account. A Medicare MSA would allow seniors to join a private heath plan that would pay all expenses above a set level, and allow seniors to deposit their Medicare dollars in a personal medical savings account to be used to pay expenses below that level. At the end of the year, seniors choosing this option could withdraw any unspent money left in the MSA or buy insurance coverage for prescription drugs or allow the money to grow with interest to pay future medical bills. It is their choice. Let us hope the liberals choose to abandon their Medi-scare tactics and join us in saving Medicare by giving seniors more choices like Medical Savings Accounts.”