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I love that commercial where a bunch of small-business executives are sitting around the table trying to find budget cuts, when the CEO says, “We aren’t leaving until we find the savings,” and a woman says under her breath, “Can they really do that?”

We need a Medicare commission where the members are forced to stay in the room and figure out a compromise that passes both the House and the Senate.

In 1981, Ronald Reagan, with the cooperation of Tip O’Neill and Howard Baker, appointed Alan Greenspan to head a commission whose mission was to save a Social Security program that was about ready to go bankrupt.

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