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Maybe it doesn't like to adopt ideas from Europe.
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It wasn't until the Great Depression that the U.S. Adopted
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Altersversicherung and
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we still haven't adopted Krankenversicherung;
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we still don't have a national health insurance.
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We have Medicare and Medicaid, but they don't apply to everyone.
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We have about forty million uninsured Americans
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with no health insurance, so we're still not there yet;
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maybe we'll get there.
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I wanted to talk about some of the important successes that--
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the Social Security System in the U.S.
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Is our copy of the German system.