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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: Bearcatbob who wrote (252678)12/30/2007 7:19:46 PM
From: Katelew  Read Replies (1) of 281500
 
Means testing could stretch the viability of social security, but I can't envision how it could put much of a dent in the future costs of Medicare.

Medicare's the tsunami coming at us, not social security.
How do you means test for the enormous costs of a heart problem or a stroke? And cancer puts you completely out of the ball park.

Europe will fare better than we will because their health care costs, in the aggregate, are substantially lower than ours are.
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