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This 3 page paper discusses Social Security and why it can be considered a tiered system. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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it 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. The tiered system that was created by
Social Security is somewhat different, in that it provides different benefits to different people; it was a tiered system when it went into effect, as well see. One of the
earliest 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. Much of the reluctance to create any social welfare program came from the idea, current at the time (and persistent
to this day) that the poor somehow deserved their poverty, and should not be helped. "Despite earlier economic crises, Americans had remained convinced that the United States was the land
of opportunity and that anyone who really wanted to work could find a job" (The depression and the New Deal, 1930-1940, p. 174). The concept that the poor were "a
class of inferiors" who needed to be "driven" from their lethargy "held sway as late as 1924" (The Depression and the New Deal, 1930-1940, p. 174). It really wasnt until
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