TY  - BOOK
AU  - Brown,J.Douglas
TI  - An American philosophy of social security: evolution and issues 
T2  - Princeton Legacy Library
SN  - 9781400867554
AV  - HD7125 .A447 1972
PY  - 1972///
CY  - Princeton, New Jersey
PB  - Princeton University Press
KW  - Social security
KW  - United States
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - 2; Foreword ; CONTENTS; Chapter I. The Genesis of Social Security in America: An Intimate Account of a Critical Period, 1934-35; Chapter II. The American Social Security Program Today ; Chapter III. The Process of Implementing a Philosophy: The Role of Advisory Councils, 1937-71; Chapter IV. Issues Concerning the Function and Scope of OASDI: The Proper Relation to Public Assistance ; Chapter V. Issues Concerning the Function and Scope of OASDI: The Proper Relation to Private Mechanisms for Protection ; Chapter VI. Issues Related to Contributions by Workers and Employers; Chapter VII. The Issue of Financial Support of Social Insurance by Government Chapter VIII. General Issues in Respect to the Contingencies Covered under Social Insurance ; Chapter IX. The Determination of the Contingency to be Covered under Old Age Insurance; Chapter X. The Coverage of Dependents and Survivors ; Chapter XI. The Coverage of the Disabled ; Chapter XII. The Determination of Individual Benefits ; Chapter XIII. The General Problems of Financing the OASDI Program ; Chapter XIV. The Evolution and General Structure of Medicare; Chapter XV. Health Care: The Expanding Frontier of Social Security Chapter XVI. The Essentials of an Effective Program for Social Security in the United States ; Appendix: Selected Readings on Social Security Philosophy and Policy in the United States ; Index; 2; b
N2  - 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, et cetera) and fears that without it the role of so
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