Research Catalog

Title

Social security and Medicare : individual versus collective risk and responsibility / Sheila Burke, Eric Kingson, Uwe Reinhardt, editors.

Publication

Washington D.C. : National Academy of Social Insurance, c2000.

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Additional Authors

• Burke, Sheila.
• Kingson, Eric R.
• National Academy of Social Insurance (U.S.). Conference (11th : 1999 : Washington, D.C.)
• Reinhardt, Uwe E.

Description

xiii, 232 p. : ill.; 23 cm.

Subject

• Medicare
• Medicare > Congresses
• Social Security
• Social security > United States > Congresses
• United States

Genre/Form

• Conference papers and proceedings
• Conference papers and proceedings.
• Congress

Note

• Paper presented at the 11th Annual Conference of the National Academy of Social Insurance, held in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 28-29, 1999.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

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• committed to retain

Contents

• Introduction / Karen Matherlee -- Bridging past and present: choice and social insurance / Robert D. Reischauer -- Why we have social insurance: history and social security reform / Edward D. Berkowitz. Comment by Robert M. Ball: old arguments and new. Comment by Janice M. Gregory: employers' view -- Individual choice versus shared responsibility: debate on social insurance reform / Stuart Butler and Theodore Marmor -- How people make decisions: costs and benefits of health- and retirement-related choice / George F. Loewenstein. Comment by James Lubalin: choosing health insurance. Comment by Mark J. Warshawsky: choosing retirement plans. Comment by Fredda Vladeck: learning from workers and retirees.
• Regulating reforms: view from the Securities Exchange Commission / Paul R. Carey. Comment by William A. Niskanen: regulatory implications. Comment by Kathleen Sebelius: state insurance perspective -- Policy implementation, predictions, and expectations: preserve, protect, and improve--not dismantle / Edward M. Kennedy. Searching for solutions / John Breaux. Legislating reforms for Social Security and Medicare / Bill Thomas. Creating a solid framework for retirement security / Kenneth Apfel. Keeping Medicare strong for the next generation / Nancy Ann Deparle. Comment by Sharon Canner: Bipartisan reform. Comment by John Rother: preparing for the long term. Comment by David Smith: dealing with the big questions.
• International perspectives on health policy reform: thoughts on the political economy of sharing / Uwe Reinhardt -- How public opinion affects reform: is Social Security reform ready for the American public? / Benjamin I. Page. Comment by William Spriggs: the public's stake in Social Security reform. Comment by Bill Gradison: polls, politics, and Social Security reform. Comment by Beth Kobliner: Generation X, Social Security, and public opinion polling.

ISBN

0815712839 (alk. paper)

LCCN

^^^99050627^

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