Bell Ringer: Should the federal government confer benefits on individuals through social insurance and public assistance? Why or why not? What might happen if such benefits were not distributed? Let's discuss.
Objectives:
18.3 Describe the origins and evolution of Social Security as well as the funding and benefit issues facing the program.
18.4 Explain how poverty is defined and trace the evolution of public assistance programs designed to address it.
18.5 Differentiate among Medicare, Medicaid, and the Affordable Care Act of 2010 and explain how each program addresses the issues of health-care delivery.
Agenda:
Social Security 8.3
1. What are some of the difficulties associated with Social Security? Let's discuss
2. Review Journal 121 - Describe alternative proposed reforms to Social Security recently debated by policymakers. (18.3)
Public Assistance 8.4
3. How does social insurance differ from public assistance?
4. What are some of the challenges surrounding the health care system in the United States? How does the Affordable Care Act of 2010 (“Obamacare”) attempt to address these issues?
5. Review Journal 122 - What is the current poverty rate, and what is the current poverty threshold? (18.4)
6. Review Journal 123 - What does TANF stand for and how did this program change welfare policy? (18.4)
Health Care 8.5
7. Compared with What? Answer Critical Thinking Question on page 539.
8. Review Journal 124 - Identify at least three key features of the Affordable Care Act of 2010.
CLASSWORK: "SOCIAL INSURANCE ASSIGNMENT"
A: Ask students to use a variety of sources (newspapers, magazines, journals, and Internet resources) to track the implementation of the 1996 welfare reform legislation. What implementation problems were experienced on the state and local levels? Were these problems anticipated or unanticipated? What has been the response to these problems? Ask a state or local welfare official to address the class on his or her experience with implementation.
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B: Ask students to use a variety of sources (newspapers, magazines, journals, and Internet resources) to track the implementation of the 2010 Affordable Care Act (“Obamacare”). What implementation problems were experienced on the state and local levels? Were these problems anticipated or unanticipated? What has been the response to these problems? Ask a doctor, nurse, or health administrator to address the class on his or her experience with implementation.
Due: tomorrow
Terms to know: distributive policies, redistributional policies, regulation, agenda setting, policy formulation, implementation, policy evaluation, feedback, fragmentation, issue network, welfare state, social welfare programs, Great Depression, New Deal, Great Society, War on Poverty, social insurance, entitlements, Social Security, Social Security Act, public assistance, poverty level, feminization of poverty, Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF), Medicare, Medicaid,
note: in the Chapter 18 Vocabulary Quiz, you will be asked to list the four steps of the Policymaking Process (listed above in the correct order and in bold) all as the answer to one question. You must list them in the correct order in order to get the answer correct.
Home Learning:
1. Read 18.6 - 18.8
2. Journal 125 - What was the main feature of the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001, and why has it been controversial? (18.6)
3. Journal 126 - Contrast means-tested and non-means tested benefits. (18.8)
1-3 are due on Wednesday, April 25, 2018; tomorrow we will grade our FRQs.
Chapter 18 Vocabulary Quiz: Wednesday, April 25, 2018
Enrichment:
1. Social Policy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mlxLX8Fto_A (9 min)
2. Social Welfare Policymaking https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZeS4YIlIFeA (15 min)
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