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At present, America’s entitlement programs are towards their last years of solvency â€" a fact agreed on by both sides of the aisle. Both parties must come together to have a commonsense conversation to prevent the collapse of institutions on which millions of seniors rely on and save Medicare for our children and grandchildren.
 
Last year, at the Republican retreat in Baltimore, President Obama stood before members of the House of Representatives and said, “At what point can we have a serious conversation about Medicare and its long-term liability…or a serious conversation about budget and debt in which we're not simply trying to position ourselves politically?” The President went on to say we cannot start these discussions by asking “who's to blame,” who is “trying to hurt our senior citizens” or “how can we make the American people afraid of the other side.” The President said this is what he’s “committed to doing.”
 
! House Republicans have put forward what President Obama called a “serious proposal” to deal with Medicare spending, which will save necessary entitlement programs for current seniors, as well as our children and grandchildren.

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