Social Security Disability Insurance: Morning Comment

This morning:

Center for American Progress Action Fund: Social Security Disability Insurance: What Does It Mean to American Workers and Their Families?: “Social Security Disability Insurance, or SSDI…

…protects nearly all American workers and their families in case of a life-changing disability or illness. About 8.9 million disabled workers, as well as 2 million spouses and children, currently receive modest but vital benefits…. Neera Tanden… Sherrod Brown… Melissa Boteach… Stephen C. Goss… T.J. Sutcliffe… Eva Dominguez… Rebecca Vallas…

I tend to find myself confused on the current state of SSDI. Of those in my web of trust as far as empirical studies of public finance are concerned, David Autor and Mark Duggan seem definitely on the side of thinking that SSDI gets us relatively little value for our public money–or at least that a streamlined and somewhat less-easy to get onto program would have a greater benefit-cost ratio. But nearly everybody else starting with John Bound.pdf) writes things that make me think that our current SSDI screen is, if anything, too tight and not too loose…