On the recordOctober 28, 2009
The President and Congress have acknowledged that the bulk of our budget problem lies in the health care, the area of health care entitlements.
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congress.govThe President and Congress have acknowledged that the bulk of our budget problem lies in the health care, the area of health care entitlements.
Kent Conrad discusses the budget issues related to health care entitlements.
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I cannot be part of any recommendations on long-term care because I am conflicted.
It lifts the bottom. It asks those of us at the top to take a little less of an increase than we might have expected.
We create a basic minimum benefit that will apply to about 10 percent of Social Security.
It was incredibly important that we not only made Social Security solvent, but we lifted the bottom 20 percent dramatically.