True Security

Rethinking American Social Insurance

By: Michael J. Graetz, Jerry L. Mashaw

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Paperback | 14 April 2010 | Edition Number 1

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Social insurance in the United States-including the Social Security Act of 1935 and the Medicare, Medicaid, and disability insurance programs that were added later-may be the greatest triumph of American domestic policy. But true security has not been achieved. As Michael J. Graetz and Jerry L. Mashaw show in this pathbreaking book, the nation's system of social insurance is riddled with gaps, inefficiencies, and inequities. Even the most popular and successful programs, Medicare and Social Security, face serious financial challenges from the coming retirement of the baby boom generation and the aging of the population.

This book challenges the notion that American social insurance must remain inadequate, unaffordable, or both. In sharp contrast to policymakers and analysts who debate only one income security program at a time, Graetz and Mashaw examine social insurance whole to assess its crucial role in providing economic security in a dynamic market economy. They recognize that, notwithstanding a proper emphasis on individual freedom and responsibility, Americans share a common fate that binds them together in a common enterprise. The authors offer us a new vision of the social insurance contract and concrete proposals to make the nation's families more secure without increasing costs.

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Acknowledgments	p. ix
Prologue: Of Fables, Fears, and Fundamentals	p. 1
Understanding Social Insurance
The Foundations of Social Insurance	p. 15
The Social Insurance Contract	p. 26
Providing Social Insurance	p. 47
Pathologies of American Social Insurance
Insuring a Working Life	p. 69
Insuring the Post-Work Years	p. 92
Social Insurance Prior to Work	p. 112
The Special Case of Medical Insurance	p. 127
From Problems to Proposals
The New Social Insurance Contract	p. 145
Social Insurance and Health Care	p. 163
Unemployment Insurance	p. 188
The Risk of Work Disability	p. 210
Families with Children	p. 227
Retirement Security	p. 255
Institutions and Politics
Institutional Commitments	p. 281
The Politics of Institutional Design	p. 306
Epilogue	p. 318
Budgetary Appendix	p. 321
Notes	p. 325
Index	p. 359
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