Crapo omits Medicare options

Sen. Mike Crapo states that Medicare funding is about exhausted, and that there are only two options to save it: Reduce benefits and increase borrowing. The senator is either stupid or cleverly protective.

There are two viable options available that not only will save Medicare but will vastly improve it. First: Go to a single-payer system administered by the government. Eliminate the medical insurance industry, which was guaranteed to get vast numbers of new customers through Obamacare. Further, it reduces expensive accounting that burdens the medical professions. And it works very well in other countries, in spite of propaganda claiming otherwise.

Second: There is the matter of fair taxation. The senator is either rich enough to finance his own campaigning, or he has friends that will do it for him as long as he keeps legislating to allow them to escape taxation. Mother Jones states that two-thirds of U.S. corporations pay no income tax. Eliminating the special privileges for the wealthy not only would enhance funding for Medicare and Social Security, but also would repair our deteriorating infrastructure.

Why doesn’t the senator work for his constituents for a change?

Joseph Wythe

Sandpoint