Democrats should defend Medicare. But if they want to accomplish much else, they will have to change it.
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Underrating Reform
Even with its compromises, health reform is the most ambitious effort in decades to reorganize a big part of life around principles of justice and efficiency.
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Is There a Social Security Crisis?
E conomist-bashing has long been a popular pastime among intellectuals right and left. Economists themselves, however, are not supposed to bash back. So when I decided to break that rule, I fully expected retribution. Surprisingly, until now all of the really personal attacks on me have come from the right, from the likes of Alan […]
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Still With Us
Social Security is our most successful antipoverty program, but large numbers of the elderly are still poor—and Social Security could be part of the solution.
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The Great Social Security Scare
Advocates of privatization are using the financial stress of the baby boomers’ retirement to undo the advances that Social Security has brought. Relieving the financial pressures, however, has become a phony excuse for privatization.
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Social Security on the Table
Must we destroy Social Security in order to save it?
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A Secure System
A former commissioner of Social Security explains how to save it.
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Two Cheers for Clinton’s Social Security Plan
Think Social Security should invest in the stock market? Take a closer look.
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Behind the Numbers: The Privateers’ Free Lunch
The flawed mathematical assumption behind privatizing Social Security.
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The Biggest Deal: Lobbying to Take Social Security Private
Privatizing Social Security would create an enormous financial bonanza. So guess who’s spending millions to change public perceptions and national policy.