The Social Security Act of 1935 said that it was the responsibility of the government to ensure for the material well-being of ordinary Americans. The Roosevelt administration designed Social Security, which offered aid to the unemployed and aged. It became a one of the centerpieces of his presidency and became part of the New Deal in the 1950s. The system was designed to create a system of unemployment insurance, old age pensions, and aid to the disabled, the elderly poor, and those with dependent children. Although this wasn’t the administration original design, which envisioned a national system of health insurance, but this idea was dropped because of the opposition from the
American Medical Association. This system was designed to be funded by taxes on employers and worker, rather than out of general government revenues. Roosevelt did this as to design a system which gave contributors “a legal, moral, and political right” to collect their old age pensions and unemployment benefits. The system was designed to give a standard of life for the American people.