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9780300081947

True Security : Rethinking American Social Insurance

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  • ISBN13:

    9780300081947

  • ISBN10:

    0300081944

  • Format: Trade Paper
  • Copyright: 1999-09-10
  • Publisher: Yale University Press
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Summary

Social insurance in 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, inefficiences, 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, Amer

Author Biography

Michael J. Graetz is Justus S. Hotchkiss Professor of Law at Yale Law School. Jerry L. Mashaw is Sterling Professor of Law at Yale Law School.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments ix
Prologue: Of Fables, Fears, and Fundamentals 1(14)
PART I. Understanding Social Insurance
The Foundations of Social Insurance
15(11)
The Social Insurance Contract
26(21)
Providing Social Insurance
47(22)
PART II. Pathologies of American Social Insurance
Insuring a Working Life
69(23)
Insuring the Post-Work Years
92(20)
Social Insurance Prior to Work
112(15)
The Special Case of Medical Insurance
127(18)
PART III. From Problems to Proposals
The New Social Insurance Contract
145(18)
Social Insurance and Health Care
163(25)
Unemployment Insurance
188(22)
The Risk of Work Disability
210(17)
Families with Children
227(28)
Retirement Security
255(26)
Part IV. Institutions and Politics
Institutional Commitments
281(25)
The Politics of Institutional Design
306(12)
Epilogue 318(3)
Budgetary Appendix 321(4)
Notes 325(34)
Index 359

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