Moynihan on Social Security "Woes"

[Max Sawicky]

The brunt of the privatization campaign
will be on retirement. I suspect they will
leave disability and survivors alone for
the time being.  The carve-out proposed
by Bush and others typically is small
enough to leave the full 'SDI' of OASDI
alone.  Naturally, once they break the
back of the program with retirement,
they will go after 'SDI'.

My impression is that the disability
component is the best, in the sense of
most economical, part of Soc Sec.,
compared to the cost of private insurance.
It would be worth it for someone (hint)
to do a little comparison shopping and
do a piece explaining the relative cost
of buying disability insurance privately
and individually vs. thru Soc Sec., even
for healthy people.  Naturally, the cost
of DI for older, less healthy people is
probably prohibitive, and for the disabled
it's probably astronomical.

mbs

marta said:
The disability community is mobilizing against partial privatization. We see
it as having the potential to destroy disability benefits.