Basu in The Daily Caller: It’s time to unplug Medicare’s third rail

Over at The Daily Caller, my colleague Rituparna Basu writes:

This election Paul Ryan and other Republicans dared approach the third rail that is Medicare, and Democrats upped the voltage, branding Republicans every chance they got as wanting to “end Medicare as we know it.”

But whatever you thought of Ryan’s particular proposals for Medicare, and whoever you voted for, there’s one thing we must all come to agree on now—it is high time we unplug the third rail.

The whole article is here.