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Social Security: Just the Facts Video
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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.
Social Insurance: Opportunities and Challenges Facing the New Leadership and the American People
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5:00pm - 7:00pm Conference Opening Reception and Keynote
- Ai-jen Poo, Director, National Domestic Workers Alliance (NDWA) and Co-director, Caring Across Generations
THURSDAY, JANUARY 26, 2017 (National Press Club, 529 14th Street, 13th Floor, NW, Washington, DC)
8:20am Welcome Remarks
- 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
- Len Nichols, George Mason University
- Avik Roy, The Foundation for Research on Equal Opportunity
- James Roosevelt, Jr., Tufts Health Plan
- Brett Graham, Leavitt Partners
- Moderator: Joseph Antos, American Enterprise Institute
11:15am Panel 2: Better Leveraging Medicaid to Foster a Culture of Health
- Trish Riley, National Academy for State Health Policy
- Alexandra L. Bradley, National Academy of Social Insurance
- Stephen A. Somers, Center for Health Care Strategies, Inc.
- Leana Wen, Commissioner of Health, Baltimore City
- Moderator: Joy A. Lewis, Kaiser Permanente Institute for Health Policy
12:15pm Break
12:30pm Networking Luncheon
1:25pm Panel 3: Improving Quality and Cost Control in Medicare: Medicare for All, Premium Support, Prescription Drug Reform
- Marilyn Moon, American Institutes for Research
- Stephen Schondelmeyer, College of Pharmacy, University of Minnesota
- Yevgeniy Feyman, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health
- Ted Marmor, Yale University
- Moderator: Paul Van de Water, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities
2:35pm Panel 4: Reforming Social Security in an Era of Inequality: Insurance vs. Private Accounts
- Jason Fichtner, Mercatus Center
- Benjamin W. Veghte, National Academy of Social Insurance
- Ken Apfel, School of Public Policy, University of Maryland
- Elaine Fultz, International Labor Organization (retired)
- Moderator: Ngina Chiteji, Wagner School of Public Service, New York University
3:35pm Break
3:45pm Panel 5: Caregiving and Social Insurance: Paid Family Leave and Long-Term Services and Supports
- Aparna Mathur, American Enterprise Institute
- Maya Rossin-Slater, University of California, Santa Barbara
- Judy Feder, McCourt School of Public Policy, Georgetown University
- Henry Claypool, Community Living Policy Center, UCSF
- Moderator: Josephine Kalipeni, Caring Across Generations
4:45pm Wrap-Up and Conference Adjournment
5:00pm Closing Remarks
- William Rodgers, National Academy of Social Insurance
