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A 6 page paper which examines the origins of the welfare system in the United States beginning with President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal (Social Security), continued by Lyndon Johnson’s Great Society (Medicare and Medicaid), and the reforms enacted by President Ronald Reagan, considering both successes and failures along the way. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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its cherished democracy left towards socialism and communism. However, difficult economic times dictated the creation of a complex welfare system that includes most notably Social Security and Medicare.
It is impossible to imagine American society without these two types of supplemental insurance. But while these programs have continued to define the modern welfare state, they have not
been without problems and attempts to expand and reform them have not always proved successful. With the exception of some workers compensation laws, there was no kind of social insurance
program in America during the twentieth century (Kingson and Berkowitz 29). In fact, most liberal attempts to persuade Congress to consider such legislation had all but ceased by the
1920s (Kingson and Berkowitz 29). Then, the stock market crashed on October 29, 1929. President Herbert Hoover clung to the belief that the economy would miraculously cure itself
without government intervention, but by 1930, there were more than 15 million unemployed Americans, and in the next three years, the gross national product fell by nearly a third (Kingson
and Berkowitz 29). With the failure of approximately 5,000 banks and 90,000 businesses across the country, the majority of Americans were convinced that "the need for immediate relief outweighed
the need for long-range social insurance programs" (Kingson and Berkowitz 29). Franklin D. Roosevelt initially shared the prevailing attitude, and when he assumed the presidency in March 1933, he concentrated
on immediate relief in the form of his New Deal package rather than on proposing social insurance laws (Kingson and Berkowitz 29). He consulted with social worker Harry Hopkins,
with whom Roosevelt had worked closely as governor of New York, and this emergency relief plan was the first move toward the establishment of a welfare state (Kingson and Berkowitz
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