Remembering Anne Somers
Anne Ramsay Somers was an author, professor, and health care expert with over five decades of experience in the field. During her extensive career, she focused on long-term care, consumer health education, financing of Medicare, and geriatrics. She was an active Member of the National Academy of Social Insurance until her death in 2008 at […]
Honoring John Burton
John F. Burton, Jr. is Professor Emeritus and former Dean in the School of Management and Labor Relations at Rutgers University and Professor Emeritus in the School of Industrial and Labor Relations at Cornell University. He has been a Member of the Study Panel on Workers’ Compensation of the National Academy of Social Insurance since […]
Remembering Pete Stark
Representative Fortney H. (Pete) Stark served in the U.S. House of Representatives for 40 years (1972 -2012) representing California’s East Bay communities. For 28 of those years, he served as Chairman or Ranking Minority Member of the Ways and Means Subcommittee on Health, where he helped enact many of America’s most important health reform laws […]
Remembering Rashi Fein
Rashi Fein was born in the Bronx, New York, and grew up in a number of cities in the U.S. and Canada. He served in the U.S. Navy during World War II and received his Bachelor’s and PhD degrees from Johns Hopkins University in Mathematics (1948) and Economics (1956), respectively. For more than a half-century, […]
Remembering Eileen P. Sweeney
Eileen P. Sweeney was born in Evanston, Ill., the eldest of 10 children, which may have helped shape her future as a protector, organizer, and leader. She received a B.A. in sociology from Northwestern University and a J.D. from Northwestern University School of Law. Her subsequent career as a lawyer and advocate focused on improving […]
Remembering Merton C. Bernstein
Merton Bernstein, a Founding Member of the National Academy of Social Insurance, suggested an internship program at one of its first Board meetings 30 years ago. He served on the Academy’s Board of Directors from 1988 until he ran for Senate in 1992, and remained a Member throughout his long and distinguished career. Academy founder […]
Remembering Leeba Lessin
Leeba Lessin (1958-2021) was a visionary leader who inspired new ways of thinking about care for the elderly and successfully executed those ideas. A founder of CareMore who served as CEO and President of the company from 2012 to 2015, Leeba reimagined elder care and created a care model that has since been adopted and adapted by Medicare […]
Older Workers in Physically Challenging Jobs Need Stronger Social Insurance Supports
Executive Summary The dominant narrative describing older U.S. workers tends to be heavily positive: On average, they are living longer, healthier lives; options for part-time and remote work are on the rise, especially since the pandemic; and physically challenging jobs are rare. While this picture accurately describes work life for many, the reality for other […]
The COVID-19 Pandemic’s Effect on Caregiving for Families with Children
The content of this fact sheet is drawn from the National Academy of Social Insurance Report of the COVID-19 Task Force Policy Translation Working Group, entitled “Social Insurance during the Pandemic: Successes, Shortcomings, and Policy Options for the Future.” The report is available at the Academy website: Nasi.org.
Nursing Facilities and the COVID-19 Pandemic
The content of this fact sheet is drawn from the National Academy of Social Insurance Report of the COVID-19 Task Force Policy Translation Working Group, entitled “Social Insurance during the Pandemic: Successes, Shortcomings, and Policy Options for the Future.” The report is available at the Academy website: Nasi.org.