An American Philosophy of Social Security (eBook)

Evolution and Issues

James Douglas Brown (Autor)

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2015
256 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4008-6755-4 (ISBN)

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Is our system of social security, which involves an annual dispersement of thirty billion dollars, as effective and as equitable as it might be? J. Douglas Brown's analysis of the policies of this program and the philosophy on which it was built offers insights into its relation to our social and political systems.He was one of a small number of people who drafted the original Social Security program enacted in 1935.He views a national welfare system as a necessary adjunct to our national system of social insurance (Social Security, Medicare, etc.) and fears that without it the role of social insurance to prevent dependency may be distorted. Social insurance, according to Dr. Brown, should extend normal self-sufficiency when contingencies interrupt income normally received, whereas public assistance should remain distinct from social insurance and protect those unable to support themselves.Dr. Blown also addresses himself to the questions of graduated income as a source of social insurance revenues, determination of benefits as related to an individual's imputed needs based on his average earnings, and permanent vesting of pension credits accrued under private programs.The most urgent need is tor a better distribution of health services to alleviate a situation in which doctors are seemingly more concerned with preserving an obsolete but lucrative system of compensation than with cooperating to reorganize an essential service.Originally published in 1972.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 8.3.2015
• Reihe/Serie: Princeton Legacy Library
• Reihe/Serie: Princeton Legacy Library
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management
• Schlagworte: Actuarial Balance • Actuarial Equivalent • Actuarial reserves • American International Group • American Medical Association • American Philosophy • Annuity • Annuity (American) • beneficiary • Brookings Institution • Citizenship of the United States • Co-insurance • Cost Accounting • Cost–benefit analysis • Cost Of Funds • Cost of living • Covered Earnings • Creditor • Current Income • deductible • Disability benefits • disability insurance • discounting • Discounts and allowances • Economic cost • Economic Policy • Economics • Economic Security • Employment • Equalization Reserve • Executive compensation • Finance • financial plan • Financial Soundness • Fiscal Policy • Flat rate (finance) • Government bond • Government Debt • Government Security • Health insurance in the United States • income • Income Tax • indirect tax • insurance • insurance coverage • Insurance in the United States • insurance policy • Internal Revenue Service • investment policy • Legislation • Legislative history • Liability (financial accounting) • Liberalization • life insurance • living wage • Measures of national income and output • Medicaid • Medicare (United States) • National Consumers League • national health insurance • National policy • national security • Net income • Paycheck • Payment • Payroll tax • Pension • Pension Credit • Primary Beneficiary • progressive tax • Provision (accounting) • Public Finance • purchasing power • Rate schedule (federal income tax) • rationing • Rebate (marketing) • Regressive tax • Retirement • Retirement age • social conscience • Social engineering (political science) • Social Insurance • socialized medicine • Social Security Act • Social Security Administration • social security benefits • Social Security System (Philippines) • Social Security Trust Fund • Social Security (United States) • Subsidy • Supply (economics) • Tax • tax incentive • tax liability • Tax Rate • Unemployment • Unemployment benefits • Value (economics) • welfare • Workers' compensation
• ISBN-10: 1-4008-6755-X / 140086755X
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4008-6755-4 / 9781400867554