But in addition to reducing our long-term problems by facing health care reform, we need to face many of our other problems in order to truly lower the cost curve or bend it downward in the right direction.
Kent Conrad calls for comprehensive reforms beyond health care to address fiscal issues.
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If we are going to make this whole system solvent, it is going to take everybody to give a little bit.
I would just say in this whole area of lifetime income options, there is a tremendous opportunity here.
We ought to reestablish this benefit for survivors and those affected by disability.
The bottom 20 percent of earners get a 35-percent increase over what is scheduled, a more than 60-percent increase over what is payable.
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