GOP senators offer Medicare reform plan

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Two Republican senators on Thursday introduced a plan to quickly and drastically reform Medicare, calling on lawmakers and candidates to stop ducking the issue because of election-year politics.

“It is morally unacceptable to ignore the biggest elephant in the room, which will have a very negative impact on this country’s future, just because there is an election year coming up,” the plan’s co-author, Sen. Tom Coburn, R-Okla., said.

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