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- Title
Social Security--Retirees Can't Live Without It, It Can't Survive Without Reform.
- Authors
Salisbury, Dallas L.
- Abstract
The article presents a general perspective and overview of social security reform proposals. Social security reform has been on the American policy agenda for decades. Sometimes the proposals are for expansion, sometimes for revision and effective reductions, and most recently for full or partial privatization. It is no wonder that the political process finds social security reform to be a challenge. Or that many are looking for easy fixes like a change in the consumer price index, the ability to use a higher interest assumption by investment in equities and the stealth increase in the retirement age far enough in the future to be ignored. Another issue promises to further confuse public altitudes toward social security: the reform of Medicare. The challenge of reform, the importance of social security income and the absence of widespread public support for radical reform may well explain why the business think tank, the Committee for Economic Development. It is suggested that a great deal of public education remains to be done before major reforms will be possible.
- Subjects
UNITED States; SOCIAL security; PRIVATIZATION; HEALTH policy; CONSUMER price indexes; HEALTH insurance
- Publication
Benefits Quarterly, 1997, Vol 13, Issue 3, p8
- ISSN
8756-1263
- Publication type
Article