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This 3 page paper discusses Social Security and explains why it can be considered to have created a tiered system. Bibliography lists 1 source.
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does not need to be scrapped or drastically altered, despite claims to the contrary. This brief paper examines the history of Social Security and why it can be said to
have created a "tiered" welfare state in the U.S. Discussion A "tiered" system of any kind means that there are two or more systems operating in parallel; the difference is
usually monetary. For example, Canada and many other industrialized nations have national health care but they also have private health providers available. People can use the public system, but those
who can afford it often opt to use the private system instead: it usually faster, though its more expensive. The same type of thing applies to Social Security. One of
the earliest American proponents of a social insurance plan was Theodore Roosevelt, who recognized that it was necessary to protect the weakest: "We must protect the crushable elements at the
base of our present industrial structure ... the hazards of sickness, accident, invalidism, involuntary unemployment, and old age should be provided for through insurance" (DeWitt, 2003). That was in 1912;
it took the Great Depression to finally get the program actually moving. The Depression brought home the idea that "traditional sources of economic security" such as "assets; labor; family; and
charity" could fail, leaving the most vulnerable with no protection at all (DeWitt, 2003). Proposals for action to help were coming from everywhere; "President Franklin Roosevelt would choose the social
insurance approach as the cornerstone of his attempts to deal with the problem of economic security" (DeWitt, 2003). He announced his intention to "provide a program for Social Security" in
June, 1934 (DeWitt, 2003). FDR created the "Committee on Economic Security," which undertook an in-depth analysis of economic insecurity in America compared to that in Europe-the first time such a
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