0 (in the US) money that employers and employees pay to the government so that people receive money when they are not able to work because of age, illness, etc. --
1 money that employers and employees pay to the government so that people receive money when they are not able to work because of age, illness, etc.: --
Yet another is that the majority accept basic market principles but increasingly also want governments that can provide decent social services and social insurance.
Workers' compensation legislation provided a significant form of social insurance that was, in practice, partly financed by workers.
Increasingly healthcare consumption is determined by system wide guidelines rather than individual preferences, and it is financed from either general taxation or social insurance.
With worsening economic conditions, the population's search for alternative social insurance turned toward participation in reconstituted kinship groups.
Here, welfare recipients are less supportive of traditional moral principles, while social insurance participants are more so.
The retrenchment of social insurance has not been compensated with a concomitant expansion of social assistance provision.
The intention of the 1983 reforms to increase the tax-financed share of spending at the expense of social insurance was also only modestly satisfied.
Although they might be used to cover the cost of social insurance, general revenues can also be rerouted to other priorities.
