We have a large senior population here, and this is an issue that I want to strengthen and also protect Social Security and Medicare. Would you improve it in any way? Well, first and foremost, we have to prevent the Republicans... have all kinds of ideas of requiring [Social Security and Medicare] to be re, you know, reenacted, essentially increasing the age at which people receive their benefits. So making sure that we protect the current benefits is important and also making sure that we strengthen it, make sure that it will continue without any reductions. (05:41–06:14)
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