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It isn't Social Security itself, but the Medicare and Medicaid trust funds that are in the biggest trouble. We took a baby step toward healthcare reform in the face of the most unpatriotic, vitriolic, often outright untrue attacks and lies perpetrated by the GOP and their allies. We'll need to revisit this issue again in order to really control healthcare costs.

Boehner complains that "we're broke" but his ally in the Senate from MA just balked at a relatively small tax on banks to make them pay for the regulation and oversight that everyone who lived through 2007 knows they need. The GOP is very happy, though, to borrow money to pay for that oversight rather than tax the perps.

The Polluter Pays Principle is sound and should extend to banks and other fat cats who made out like bandits under Bush II.

Social Security, Medicaire, Medicaid, veterans benefits and the like are all noble notions but are all unfunded entitlements which have been mismanaged for a long long time.

I hope both sides can put politics aside and come to some agreement how to make them work.

Government medical programs in Europe don't have the high administrative overhead that our insurance programs and the government agencies that monitor them here do.

Sometimes we're paying more for administration than we're paying for benefits.

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