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Testimony before the House Budget Committee
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Many advocates of individual social security accounts implicitly assume that an acceptable strategy can be developed for implementing their plan. International experience suggests that this is a dangerous assumption. No country has yet successfully implemented individual accounts in a way likely to be acceptable in the U.S. Supporters of individual accounts need to pay more attention to administrative details if they want to avoid another catastrophic health fiasco.