The myriad social insurance schemes known as entitlements now comprise the majority of federal outlays.
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We are also the only industrialized nation without broad-based health coverage through government or social insurance.
Taxing away some of the return to capital to provide social insurance against risks is appropriate.
Liberals must overcome their fear that any change at all is the death knell for social insurance.
User activity is sustained, even enhanced, by massive public investments in education, social insurance, or broadband networks.
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Forty years ago in Japan, one retiree was supported by ten active payers of social insurance levies.
The most obvious example was the unparalleled success of William Beveridge's official report on social insurance, published in 1942.
This plan would likely enhance efficiency, but social insurance initiatives ought to be eased entirely back to state capitols.
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Anyway, high earners also pay the largest share of social insurance taxes, though their share is not so disproportionate.
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Theodore Roosevelt ran for President in 1912 on a Progressive Party platform calling for a national system of social insurance.
Particularly striking is the fact that the same phenomenon, though less dramatic, is evident for corporate tax and social insurance collections.
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He was so disappointed by the job he eventually landed co-ordinating social insurance that news of the appointment brought tears to his eyes.
Mr. Litow is a retired actuary and past chairman of the Social Insurance Public Finance Section of the Society of Actuaries.
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Of course, Social Security is social insurance rather than a personal retirement account, and so it uses a formula to cross-subsidize certain beneficiaries.
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As a result, those who most need social insurance single women, low-wage workers, the disabled, and the very old get much less than they need.
This morning, a group of long-term care experts discussed their ideas at the annual policy research conference of the National Academy of Social Insurance.
They may well be social insurance schemes, but to see this group as monolithically dependent is wrong headed, misguided, and ultimately self-destructive for Governor Romney.
He is a returned Peace Corps Volunteer, having served in Swaziland from 1989-1991, and is a member of the National Academy for Social Insurance (NASI).
In the cities the main system combines social insurance, paid for by payroll taxes, with individual accounts, into which workers must pay 8% of their earnings.
That is why David Cameron has made it clear from the start that we are having no truck with ideas for some alternative funding mechanism like social insurance.
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And, as usual, they ignore the unfunded liabilities of social insurance programs, even though these benefits are officially recognized as "mandatory spending" when the time comes to pay them out.
Social security is social insurance against outliving your savings.
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But there are many ways to raise and spend money on health: through private insurance, as in America, through social insurance, as in much of Europe, or partly through charges, as in France.
Nor is there any reason why the state should not help to organize a comprehensive system of social insurance in providing for those common hazards of life against which few can make adequate provision.
It is, instead, a form of social insurance.
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Language and cultural barriers not to mention wide differences in social insurance and retirement programmes encourage workers to stay in their own country, no matter how bad the economy, closing off one of the easiest avenues of convergence.
Administrative costs for physicians are in the range of 25-30 percent of practice revenues and insurance-related costs are 15 percent of revenues, according to a National Academy of Social Insurance report for The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
But they reveal little understanding of the complex interest-group politics and broader meaning of Medicare in America, as a social insurance program, as a pillar of the liberal welfare state, as a force in the lives of millions of people.
Beveridge's system was about social insurance.
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As for Changchun's residents, the government last year introduced a scheme to top up the income of any household in which average earnings were less than 130 yuan per person a month a meagre sum maybe, but half of China's cities lack any social insurance at all.
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