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To: Steve Lokness who wrote (178217)	12/29/2011 10:37:23 AM
From: JohnM	Read Replies (2) of 542687

Well, we do see this one differently, Steve. Social security is not in trouble. Period. As I've just posted, taking the cap off would do the trick nicely. And, even if that proved politically impossible, there are several small tweaks that would keep the full social insurance policy notion in place for a very long time. It's health insurance that's the problem and it could be fixed by extending medicare to everyone. I'm certain you know the data. In countries which have something like our medicare for everyone (which is not socialized medicine, incidentally, more like socialized health insurance), costs are less than in the US and health measures are much better. Classic win-win. As for the Obama version, it's full version is certainly better than the one we have now but a long way from what it should be and what might well have been politically possible in 2009, given a different set of actors in the WH--not Rahm, for instance. But I think we differ here. I don't think healthcare nor insurance for healthcare are proper market items, for a variety of reasons. I gather you do.

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