Thursday, September 22, 2005
Hmm...
I wonder:
Germany's situation, however, is dire: Some 5 million Germans, or 12 percent of the workforce, are unemployed. The economy is moribund. So far, Germans have been unwilling to abandon their cradle-to-grave social protections of health care, pensions and unemployment for the uncertainty of American-style capitalism. Yet the economy is unable to generate the tax revenues needed to support the social safety net.
In the coming months and years, Germany must summon the political will to overcome its challenges and adopt a program of recovery. The choices it makes will offer lessons for our future, too.
I wonder if one of these lessons for the Chron is going to involve concern about universal health care.
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