True Security Rethinking American Social Insurance

Name: True Security Rethinking American Social Insurance
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ISBN: 9780300081947

ISBN-10: 0300081944

ISBN-13: 9780300081947

Edition: 1999

Authors: Michael J. Graetz, Jerry L. Mashaw

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Social security in the USA may be the greatest triumph of American domestic policy, but true security has not been achieved. This work shows that the nation's system of social insurance is riddled with gaps, inefficiencies and inequities.

Book details

List price: $37.00
Copyright year: 1999
Publisher: Yale University Press
Publication date: 9/10/1999
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 384
Size: 0.65" wide x 0.92" long x 0.09" tall
Weight: 1.254
Language: English

Michael J. Graetz is Isidor and Seville Sulzbacher Professor of Law and Columbia Alumni Professor of Tax Law at Columbia University and Professor of Law, Emeritus, at Yale Law School. His other books include Death by a Thousand Cuts: The Fight over Taxing Inherited Wealth.



Acknowledgments


Prologue: Of Fables, Fears, and Fundamentals



Understanding Social Insurance



The Foundations of Social Insurance



The Social Insurance Contract



Providing Social Insurance



Pathologies of American Social Insurance



Insuring a Working Life



Insuring the Post-Work Years



Social Insurance Prior to Work



The Special Case of Medical Insurance



From Problems to Proposals



The New Social Insurance Contract



Social Insurance and Health Care



Unemployment Insurance



The Risk of Work Disability



Families with Children



Retirement Security



Institutions and Politics



Institutional Commitments



The Politics of Institutional Design


Epilogue


Budgetary Appendix


Notes


Index