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The House-Senate conferees now attempting to reconcile twoprofoundly flawed Medicare bills should go back to the drawingboard and use as a blueprint the 1999 majority recommendations ofthe National Bipartisan Commission on the Future of Medicare, whichproposed that Medicare beneficiaries be given a choice betweentraditional Medicare as it exists today and new, private plansoffering comprehensive, integrated benefits including fulloutpatient prescription drug coverage.

The House and Senate each deliberately ignored the Joint EconomicCommittee's sober warning  when passing different versions ofMedicare legislation (H.R. 1 and S. 1), providing a universal drugentitlement: That entitlement will massively disrupt, one way oranother, existing private drug coverage for millions of seniors,particularly the drug coverage provided by employer plans.

House and Senate Medicare conferees are scrambling to find asolution to the problem of senior dumping  - which will occurwhen former employers drop current retirees into the proposed newgovernment entitlement. Roughly 10 million seniors have nocoverage. It is not too late for Congress to help those in needwithout hurting those who are not.