The "social contract" is already pretty damn healthy.
Federal and state spending combined on Medicare and Medicaid, huge health care programs for the elderly and poor, runs (to my best calculation) about a trillion dollars a year.
That doesn't count Social Security or any other Federal and state social spending in the system.
That's $3,333 per American, or about $9,600 per filed tax return. How much did you pay in taxes last year?
So exactly how much "social contract" is enough? Seriously?
How about designing programs actually targeted to that small percentage of people (and no, it's not 40 million) who really can't afford alternatives instead of trying to enslave an entire population to the government? This isn't about the needy. This is about power.