Who Should Pay for Medicare?
Book Forum
About This Event

Who Should Pay for Medicare?
According to information in the Medicare Trustees' latest annual report, Medicare's long-term fiscal gap now exceeds $60 trillion, or nearly six times the amount that the entire U.S. economy produces in a year. Yet politicians in both parties keep making the problem worse, most recently by enacting a $16.6 trillion prescription-drug benefit with no funding. How will these efforts turn out? How can we try to make Medicare sustainable? What should the program really be accomplishing? In Who Should Pay for Medicare? (University of Chicago Press, April 2004), AEI scholar and New York University professor Daniel Shaviro explores these issues. Shaviro, a leading legal and tax policy expert, addresses this book to seniors who feel entitled to expanded coverage, younger people who wonder what to expect from the government when they retire, and Washington policymakers who need a guide book to Medicare's future.

Agenda
9:15 a.m.
Registration
9:30
Presenter:
Daniel Shaviro, AEI and New York University Law School
Discussants:
Len M. Nichols, Center for Studying Health System Change
Peter Orszag, Brookings Institution
Robert Reischauer, Urban Institute
Moderator:
Joseph Antos, AEI
11:00
Adjournment
AEI Participants

 

Joseph
Antos

  • Mr. Antos's research focuses on the economics of health policy—including Medicare and broader health system reform, health care financing, health insurance regulation, and the uninsured—and federal budget policy. He has written and spoken extensively on the Medicare drug benefit and has led a team of experienced independent actuaries and cost estimators in a study to evaluate various proposals to extend health coverage to the uninsured. His work on the country’s budget crisis includes a detailed plan to achieve fiscal stability and economic growth developed in conjunction with AEI colleagues.  


    Joseph Antos is also a commissioner of the Maryland Health Services Cost Review Commission and a health adviser to the Congressional Budget Office.  Before joining AEI, Mr. Antos was Assistant Director for Health and Human Resources at the Congressional Budget Office.




    Watch Mr. Antos in an interview with Bill Erwin of the Alliance for Health Reform on "Will Health Reform Reduce the Federal Deficit?"

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  • Phone: 202-862-5938
    Email: jantos@aei.org
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    Email: catherine.griffin@aei.org
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