AP Gov Social Welfare

majoritarian: available to everyone regardless of income. social security and Medicare (old people) client politics: medicaid and food stamps. opinions helping the few change.

americans have a restrictive view of who is entitled to government assistance (they must deserve it) prefer that people be given services (education) instead of money. america has been slower than other countries to embrace welfare state Americans insist that the sates and private enterprise play a large role in running welfare programs.

OASDI: monthly payments to retired or disabled people and surviving members of their families. Also known as social security. Medicare: govt pays for part of cost of hospital care for retired or disabled people covered by social security Unemployment Insurance: weekly payments to workers who have been laid off and can't find work. TANF: Payments to needy families with children SSI: Cash payments to aged, blind, or disabled people whose income is below a certain amount Food Stamps: obvious Medicaid: pays medical expenses of people receiving SSI or TANF revenues. Earning Income Tax Credit: pays a cash subsidy to poor working families

for unemployed and elderly. Workers would contribute and from which they would benefit when retired or unemployed.

for the blind, dependent children, and aged. Fed would use its power to tax to provide the funds, but programs would be provided by the state (except for old age insurance)

a measure to determine that incomes a below a certain level to quality for programs

soon there will not be enough people paying Social Security taxes to provide benefits for every single person. can raise retirement age freeze the amount of retirement benefits raise Social Security taxes could privatize Social Security do first two options and invest Social Security taxes in mutual funds.

costs a lot, not very efficient. program getting a lot more expensive. a lot of ppl use medical services when not needed doctors could overcharge doctors and hospitals paid on basis of government-approved payment plan that can change at any time. people don't want to cut medicare because it would be unpopular. could get rid of medicare and have doctors and hospitals work for government. let people take medicare money and buy health insurance from private suppliers Clinton used surplus to spend 794 billion on prolonging Medicare's life and adding many new benefits.

pays for patient visits to hospital, covering most of the services you receive there for up to 90 days during any benefit period. (occurs at least 60 days after patient was last released from a hospital) must be older than 65 pays for doctors' services and outpatient hospital care. must pay annual $100 deductible and 20percent of cost of each visit. Must pay a monthly premium

program was abolished in 1996 because public opinion was so against it

both the benefits and costs of a proposed program are widely distributed. Proposal will be adopted if beneficiaries believe that their benefits will exceed their costs and if political elites believe it is legitimate for the federal government to adopt the program.

Supreme Court ruled that voucher programs that provide \"true private choice\" are constitutional. nothing has been done about this ruling.

for the first time in many years, citizens rated Republicans on par with Democrats for dealing with education issues.

benefits of a proposal are to go to a relatively small group but the public at large pays. Will pass if cost for public at large is not great and client is thought to be deserving.

providing training and education to welfare recipients is strongly preferred by the American public

giving people money

different opinion on welfare.

meant to eliminate many programs created in 30s. no benefits for legal immigrants in their first five years in U.S. cut heavily on food stamp spending.

biggest programs are social security, medicare, unemployment insurance and medicaid.

people from baby boom will soon be on social security. Not enough people paying to sustain this.