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Del. Allen, a Charlottesville lawyer, started by attacking Ms. Slaughter’s plan for a payroll tax cut. Her plan, he said, “will bankrupt the system within 10 years.”
He accused her of using the issue to “grandstand.” He favors an earning-test tax for seniors and wants the federal government to guarantee pension funds.
Ms. Slaughter, a member of AARP, said, “Contrary to Mr. Allen’s allegations, I’m not about to put. . .Social Security in jeopardy.”
She favors a public-private solution to health care, wants to “ensure choice” in the selection of physicians and would support protection of pension funds and maintaining the equity of the Social Security Trust Fund.
On the question of long-term health care solutions, Del. Allen supports measures that would allow the elderly to cash in life insurance policies to help cope with health care costs. He also favors health-care IRAs, he said.
Mr. Maclean called for a national health care program.
Ms. Slaughter told the AARP meeting that she struggled with her own father’s long-term illness, and wants to institute long-term care solutions as part of an overall healthcare package for all Americans.
Asked about spiraling healthcare costs, Mr. Macleay suggested a national health care program “of some sort,” Ms. Slaughter called for a reallocation of resources that “remains to be worked out,” Mr. Torrice suggested cutting fat from the federal budget and Del. Allen’s “specifics, rather than platitudes” included limited mandate insurance and pooling of health-care costs.
Another question concerned increasing housing costs and the burden they put on older Americans living on fixed incomes.
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