Annotated Bibliography: Social Security, Public Policy, and Healthcare

This annotated bibliography provides an overview of various research papers and books related to social security and public policy. The first source discusses public opinion's influence on developing government policies. The second source focuses on social awareness programs to defend against social engineering. The third paper analyzes the health policy landscape and its impact on social security. The fourth paper explores four options to enhance sustainable social security, including adjustments to retirement age and payroll taxes. The fifth paper uses the Future Elderly Model to examine the impact of increased mortality gaps on the progressivity of Medicare and social security. The final paper describes the history of the Medicare program and the role of presidential influence in its development. Overall, the annotated bibliography highlights the complexities and challenges within social security, healthcare, and public policy.

Annotated Biography

1. DiNitto, D. M., & Johnson, D. H. (2015). Social welfare: Politics and public policy.
Pearson.
In this research paper, the data is collected from the public opinion through conducting
the survey and pooling in order to collect the information from the public. The public
opinion is further used to develop the government policies which are matching with the
public preferences.
2. Gardner, B., & Thomas, V. (2014). Building an Information Security Awareness
Program: Defending Against Social Engineering and Technical Threats. Elsevier.
In this book, the social awareness program is explained towards the informational
security in order to defend against the social engineer. The various social effective
programs are explained in order to defense from the social engineering attacks.
3. Kane, R. L., Saliba, D., & Hollmann, P. (2017). The Evolving Health Policy
Landscape and Suggested Geriatric Tenets to Guide Future Responses. Journal of
the American Geriatrics Society.
In this research paper, the health policy landscape is analyzed in order to guide the future
responses. The paper describes the contribution of the congress leader towards the health
care which is considered as the social security. The potential areas of change are
discussed in the paper in order to improve the current social security.
4. Kitao, S. (2014). Sustainable social security: Four options. Review of Economic
Dynamics, 17(4), 756-779.

In this research paper, the four options are explained in order to enhance the sustainable
social security which includes a rise in the retirement age, increase the payroll taxes by
six percent, reduction in the replacement rates by one-third and reduction in the income.
The goal of all the four policies is same, but the outcome is different. The paper also
analyzes the welfare impact of the agents with different age groups.
5. Goldman, D. P., & Orszag, P. R. (2014). The growing gap in life expectancy: using
the Future Elderly Model to estimate implications for social security and Medicare.
The American economic review, 104(5), 230-233.
In this research paper, the future elderly mode is used to analyze the impact of an
increase of mortality gaps on the progressivity of Medicare and social security of those
people who were born between the year 1928 and 1990. It is founded the wide reduction
in the progressivity of both the programs due to the reduction in the current mortality
trend which mainly effects on the life of both the programs. All the four opinions curtail
the benefits which capital accumulation and savings whereas the payroll increase and
mean tests minimize the work efforts. The current generation prefers to finance the
transition with the payroll taxes whereas the future general prefers options in order to
reduce the benefits.
6. Reese, D. (2015). Health Care for Everyone: Presidential Influence on the History of
Medicare.
In this research paper, the history of Medicare program is described which helps to
contribute towards the improvement of livelihood for the people in the United States. The

main reason for the development of the program came from the president role. The
program is serving since 1965, and the reform of Medicare is mainly depended upon the
cost controlling ability of the medical, interest in health care and ability to enact proper
legislation.