Also I truly don't think you could get something like the New Deal/SSI anywhere near to launch these days, I just don't. Not that it was a cakewalk in the thirties, but just look at the decades-long bloody bitter struggle it has been to try to get some not-rich US citizens halfway decent healthcare that still is not that affordable and often undertreats people.

(sorry to be so US centric but that is the system I know....)