Medicare reform crucial for economic health

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Washington Times:

The looming “fiscal cliff” threatens to turn our fragile recovery into another full-blown recession if President Obama’s push to raise taxes on U.S. job creators is successful. It also threatens to undermine our national defense by cutting resources for our military. The cliff absolutely must be avoided.

As Washington works feverishly to reach an agreement, we should view these negotiations as merely a first step toward solving our nation’s major economic challenges. In 2013, Congress and the president must work to enact pro-growth tax reform. We must also recognize that burgeoning entitlement spending is the foremost driver of our escalating debt crisis. Without structural reforms of entitlements, our economy will ultimately collapse under an unsustainable debt.