COVERED: a week-by-week look at the political and legislative developments that led to the creation of Medicare and Medicaid 50 years ago. Bob Rosenblatt, Academy senior fellow and former Los Angeles Times Washington correspondent will report on the people and the maneuvers that led to this major expansion of social insurance.
Below are also links to download the slidedecks presented during Social Insurance: Opportunities and Challenges Facing the New Leadership and the American People. Please note that if there is no link, it means the speakers did not use slides.
5:00pm - 7:00pm Conference Opening Reception and Keynote
Ai-jen Poo, Director, National Domestic Workers Alliance (NDWA) and Co-director, Caring Across Generations
William J. Arnone, National Academy of Social Insurance
8:30am Opening Keynote
Peter Georgescu, Author of Capitalists Arise!: End Economic Inequality, Grow the Middle Class, Heal the Nation (Forthcoming, May 2017) and Chairman Emeritus, Young & Rubicam
9:50am Break
10:00am Panel 1: Repeal and Replace? Health Insurance beyond the ACA