As you are aware, our nation's health care and retirement programs are going broke while simultaneously starting to disserve their beneficiaries. Increasingly doctors are not accepting Medicare patients; we are seeing forms of rationing when it comes to access and quality. When it comes to Social Security, our children are due to put more money into the system than they take out.

While the rate of growth for Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid is unsustainable, we do not have to cut one penny from these programs to save them. All we have to do is slow their rate of growth if we want to solve our nation's structural debt crisis and ensure these programs are around for future generations.

In April, House Republicans passed a budget that would do just that. To strengthen our nation’s health and retirement security programs, our budget focused on creating a more effective, efficient, and accountable government for future retirees while not changing those programs for those 55 and older. For instance, our plan transitions Medicare for those 54 and younger into a program that allows future retirees to choose from a list of coverage options that best suit their needs.  In other words, future Medicare recipients will be provided the same kind of health coverage options Members of Congress and federal workers now enjoy.

Unfortunately, this budget—along with 17 other forgotten House-passed bills that would empower job creators to start hiring again—remain stuck in the Democratic-led Senate. The American people cannot wait any longer, and they shouldn’t have to.