Social insurance : America's neglected heritage and contested future / Theodore R. Marmor, Jerry L. Mashaw, John Pakutka.
2014
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Title
Social insurance : America's neglected heritage and contested future / Theodore R. Marmor, Jerry L. Mashaw, John Pakutka.
Published
Thousand Oaks, California : SAGE/CQ Press, [2014]
Call Number
HD7125 .M324 2014
ISBN
9781452240008 (alk. paper : pbk)
1452240000 (alk. paper : pbk)
1452240000 (alk. paper : pbk)
Description
xxv, 299 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Other Standard Identifiers
40023022813
System Control No.
(OCoLC)847246148
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 242-266) and index.
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Table of Contents
Figures and Tables
ix
Series Foreword
xv
Preface / Donald F. Kettl
xix
About the Authors
xxiii
pt. I
American Social Insurance
1
1.
Economic Risks and Social Insurance Realities
3
Three Stories
3
Risks and Social Insurance
6
Social Insurance versus Private Insurance
9
Plan of the Book
12
2.
Assessment of the Six Threats to Family Income
14
Family Income and Assets
14
The Nature of the Threats
17
3.
Philosophies, Policies, and Public Budgets
34
Philosophies of Social Welfare
34
The American Expression of Social Welfare Philosophy
40
Appendix: Public Expenditure in the United States
42
4.
The Historical Development of American Social Insurance and Its Associated Programs
47
The Formative Years
49
The New Deal Arrives
52
Early Expansion
55
Consolidation and Conflict
56
The Battle for Universal Health Insurance
59
Accomplishments and Challenges
64
pt. II
Threats and Protections
69
5.
The Threat of Birth into a Poor Family
71
Measuring Poverty in America: A Brief Discussion
74
Cash Assistance
76
Food Assistance
82
Access to Health Care for Poor Children
85
Access to Child Care and Education for Children of Poor Families
86
Access to Shelter
89
Programmatic Summary: Assistance to Poor Families
90
Reform Directions
92
6.
The Threat of Early Death of a Family Breadwinner
95
Private Life Insurance
97
Social Security Survivors Benefits
101
International Comparisons
103
7.
The Threat of Ill Health
106
American Health Care Reform: Making Sense of the Affordable Care Act's Origins, Fate, and Future
109
The Nature of the Threat and Its Cost
110
The Protective Arrangements in Place
113
Employer-Sponsored Coverage
115
Medicaid
119
Medicare
121
The Affordable Care Act
124
Basic Health Care Economics
126
International Experience
129
Conclusion
134
8.
The Threat of Involuntary Unemployment
135
Point of Departure
137
Measuring Unemployment
138
How Unemployment Insurance Works
139
Why Unemployment Insurance Is Failing So Many
143
Does Unemployment Insurance Encourage Unemployment?
147
Recent Reforms and Possible Models
149
9.
The Threat of Disability
153
The Market for Commercial Disability Insurance
155
A Century of Workers' Compensation
156
Social Security Disability Insurance
159
Potential Benefits and Application Process
161
Continuing Disability Reviews and Returns to Work
163
The SSDI Trust Fund
164
Understanding the Growth in SSDI Beneficiaries and Expenditures
166
Supplemental Security Income
168
Additional Protections
170
International Experience and Reform Possibilities
173
10.
The Threat of Outliving One's Savings
178
The Difficulty of Retirement Planning
179
The Three- (or Four-)Legged Stool
180
The International Context
196
Solutions to the Social Security Trust Fund Seventy-Five-Year Imbalance
198
pt. III
Thinking about the Design of Income Security Programs and Their Reform
203
11.
Accomplishments and Limitations
205
Variations in Program Design
206
Political Compromise and Programmatic Dysfunction
210
12.
Social Insurance, Markets, and "Modernization"
216
The Durability and Desirability of Social Insurance
217
Clouds over Camelot
220
Social Security: Fairness, Affordability, and Modernization
220
Medicare: Fairness, Affordability, and Modernization
227
Enter the Affordable Care Act
236
Epilogue
239
Notes
242
Index
267