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John Larson: “Social Security takes great pride in saying that its loss ratio is like 99 percent, which makes it one of the most--and…”

On the recordMarch 6, 2018
Social Security takes great pride in saying that its loss ratio is like 99 percent, which makes it one of the most--and the envy of the private sector insurance world would love to have that kind of loss ratio, and yet we see these glaring failures.
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John Larson
Democratic · Connecticut

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Larson highlights the disparity between Social Security's success rate and its operational failures.

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