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In recent speeches, Bush has argued that a key to reducing economic insecurity is to allow average families to own their health insurance and retirement plans, rather than relying on employers or government programs to provide them.
With workers more likely to change jobs or careers than those of earlier generations, "one way to bring stability and security into a person's life is to encourage ownership," Bush has said.
But Kerry argues that the ideas Bush promotes as increasing ownership are really intended to shift the risks of retirement and healthcare from government and employers toward individuals. Kerry and other critics maintain that individuals can achieve greater economic security by remaining within collective programs meant to spread risk over a large pool of participants, such as employer-provided healthcare, Social Security and Medicare.
"Bush is offering a return to the pre-social insurance world in which people bore risk mostly on their own," said Theodore R. Marmor, a professor of public policy at the Yale University's School of Management. "Kerry … wants to preserve the spreading of risk in the name of stability."
This philosophical difference is clearest on healthcare and Social Security, the two issues in Bush's ownership agenda likely to provoke the sharpest clashes between the candidates in the weeks ahead.
http://www.latimes.c...=la-home-nation
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