The Social Security Debate, Cont'd

[james withrow]

Max: "Doesn't it make more sense, therefore, 
to maintain a distinctive definition for social insurance programs and
try to 
include the excluded within their orbit?"

    I'd like to first agree with Max's assertion and ask a question of
my own.  Would we be going down the wrong path if we applied social
insurance  features to other government programs?  Health coverage, for
instance.  Maybe wrap a few programs into one: college grants, AFDC,
etc.  A citizen makes some contributions to the program and then she or
her children can draw from it?

     Unemployment compensation and workmen's comp already fit the
definition of social insurance, I suppose-- which brings up a couple
examples of social insurance programs that have been nibbled at by the
right.

                         James

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