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Showing Original Post only (View all)Robert Reich: Medicare isn't the problem. It may be the solution. [View all]
The Hoax of Entitlement Reform
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Medicare isn't the problem. It may be the solution.
"Entitlement reform" sounds like a noble endeavor. But it has little or nothing to do with reducing future budget deficits.
Taming future deficits requires three steps having nothing to do with entitlements: Limiting the growth of overall healthcare costs, cutting our bloated military, and ending corporate welfare (tax breaks and subsidies targeted to particular firms and industries).
Obsessing about "entitlement reform" only serves to distract us from these more important endeavors.
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-reich/entitlement-reform_b_2421991.html?utm_hp_ref=politics
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We've gone from considering a MC buy-in option to debating whether to raise the MC age to 67...
Faryn Balyncd
Jan 2013
#6
Citizen's United + mandatory private insurance = plenty of your own money says you're wrong. nt
Romulox
Jan 2013
#12
The first $250K of home sale capital gains is tax exempt, $500K is you're married filing jointly n/t
TexasBushwhacker
Jan 2013
#34
I read a piece months ago about how much Medicare and Medicaid have contributed to the recovery
underpants
Jan 2013
#30