Scott Brown Mostly Mum on Medicare Reform

When asked about Medicare reform this afternoon in the Capitol, Senator Scott Brown (R-Mass.) said, “We need to stop playing games and we need to come up with some solutions.” What solutions might those be? “I already laid it out yesterday,” Brown told me, referring to an op-ed he published in Politico and declining further comment.

Brown wrote yesterday that Medicare reform must come by making “improvements to the traditional Medicare plan,” not by the sort of reform outlined in the House Republicans’ budget passed in April. He suggested cutting “waste, fraud, or abuse” could go a long way to making Medicare solvent: