They helped some of the colonies.
Connecticut plan or compromise of 1787<span />
Economic theory predicts that employer-provided retiree health insurance benefits crowd-out household wealth accumulation. Nevertheless, there is little research on the impacts of retiree health insurance on wealth accruals, so this paper utilizes a unique data file on three baseline cohorts from the Health and Retirement Study to explore how employer-provided retiree health insurance may influence. net household wealth among public sector employees, where retiree healthcare benefits are still quite prevalent. We find that most full-time public sector employees who anticipate receiving employer-provided health insurance coverage in retirement save less than their private sector uncovered counterparts.
The theory that the threat of nuclear war is enough to prevent an attack is called: Nuclear deterrent
The theory is based on the likelihood that every nations would fear a mutual destruction when initiating attack to countries that own nuclear weapon. Even if a country emerge victorious from a nuclear war, the damage that caused by opposition's nuclear would damage the environment of the victors for decades.