Trustees of the Social Security and Medicare trust funds released a report on the two programs’ financial status and news was not good:

Medicare is likely to go bankrupt by 2024 —five years earlier than last year’s estimate.

This threatens senior care. At this rate, Medicare will not be available for future generations.

However, we can act now to save Medicare, improve quality of care — and keep Washington bureaucrats out of patients’ medical decisions.

Fixing Medicare should not compromise patient care. The president’s health care bill created the controversial Independent Payment Advisory Board. This panel of unelected bureaucrats, whose sole purpose is to decide whether to offer Medicare benefits based on a budget, could lead to government rationing of care.