POLSC401: Ethics and Public Policy

5.1: Social Security and Health Insurance

• The U.S. Social Security Administration: "Historical Background and Development of Social Security"

  Read this article.

• ProCon.org: "Should Social Security Be Privatized?" URL

  Read this article and the linked questions pertaining to the privatization of social security.

• ProCon.org: "Should All Americans Have the Right (be Entitled) to Health Care?" URL

  Read the article and each of the linked questions pertaining to health care.

• ProCon.org: "Are the March 2010 Federal Health Care Reform Laws Good for America?" URL

  Read this article and each of the linked questions pertaining to health care reform.
  

• Milton Friedman's "The Social Security Myth" and PBS: "Social Security Empty?" Page

  Watch these videos.

• Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: Julian Lamont and Christi Favor's "Distributive Justice" URL

  Read this article.