American Politics

  • No one disagrees that health care reforms in the United States aren't needed to bring costs under control, while still providing maximum coverage for people. Legislators and presidents have spoken for decades of...

  • In 1965, President Lyndon B. Johnson and the 89th Congress came together to extend the scope of Social Security coverage by amending into the original legislation a program of social medical insurance called Medicare...

  • Born from President Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal entitlement policies, Social Security functions as a system of social insurance in which a portion of workers and employers earnings are taxed to fund government-managed trust funds. These funds...