ABSTRACT
This chapter shows the Clinton administration's plan to guarantee "health care that's always there" for all Americans, "Maybe something will soon happen in Washington to help out with the health care". It offers, explaining just a bit about Clinton's Health Security proposal and the maneuvering around it. Experts and civically active groups have already suggested many ways to sustain and improve America's existing social insurance programs while enhancing supports for working families. The best defense of the core principles and shared revenue pools of Social Security and Medicare may require a good offense, not just an attempt to preserve the status quo. Not only has the budgetary future brightened; for better as well as for worse, "welfare" as we knew it prior to 1996 has been transformed. Work must pay, and it must be feasible in combination with single or dual parenthood, before we can consider a reduced national workweek.
