Deja vu all over again
Tags: MEDICARE; SOCIAL security -- Economic aspects
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- Social insecurity. Howard, Lucy; Hamilton, Kendall // Newsweek;11/14/1994, Vol. 124 Issue 20, p6
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- Social security bailout: Is a `big fix' needed? Francis, David R. // Christian Science Monitor;4/30/98, Vol. 90 Issue 108, p3
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- The Seduction of Surpluses. Samuelson, Robert J. // Newsweek (Pacific Edition);07/12/99, Vol. 134 Issue 2, p4
Suggests that changes in conditions facing most United States retirees since the creation of the Social Security and Medicare systems raise moral, social, and political questions about justification for the cost of the programs. Public spending on the elderly as of 1998 and projected to 2020;...
- The Seduction of Surpluses. Samuelson, Robert J. // Newsweek;7/12/1999, Vol. 134 Issue 2, p74
Suggests that changes in conditions facing most United States retirees since the creation of the Social Security and Medicare systems raise moral, social and political questions about justification for the cost of the programs. Public spending on the elderly as of 1998 and projected to 2020;...


