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Politics : A US National Health Care System?
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To: Alighieri who wrote (16968)4/17/2010 12:21:11 PM
From: Lane31 Recommendation  Read Replies (1) of 42652
 
When the gvt established medicare or SS the presumption was that they would be funded such that there'd be no unfunded debt (liability in this case, since there is no debt just yet).

So the expectation is that they would raise taxes, as needed, so the program would never add to the debt. OK.

Except that they don't have any control over future appropriations. And except that, the way these programs go, no one ever seems to honor that intention. Their intentions have no weight with future appropriators. The programs just keep on getting bigger and it takes a crisis before anyone even things about putting costs and benefits in balance. The debt just goes up. There's no reason to think that this entitlement would be any different.
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