Now that the GOP has gone flexible on taxes, we should go flexible on entitlements. You cannot realistically expect to make a deal without giving them something in exchange, like the following:
-enacting medical malpractice reform,
-increasing the Medicare and Social Security eligibility age to 70,
-reducing the tax break for employer-provided health insurance,
-capping Medicare growth beginning FY 2013,
-tightening eligibility for Social Security disability benefits,
-indexing Social Security benefits to inflation as opposed to wages,
All good ideas.
