Discussions

2009

• Health Care Should Be Driven by Mission, Not Money
  Philip Caper
  M.D., Codman Group (Founding Chairman)
  December 18, 2009

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• The Heart of Power: Health and Politics in the Oval Office
  A Book Review by Philip Caper, M.D.
  December 18, 2009

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• Can the Time Value of Money Save Long Term Care?
  John Cutler
  Senior Policy Analyst, United States Office of Personnel Management
  October 15, 2009

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• Recent Changes in Dutch Health Insurance
  Kieke Okma Adjunct Associate Professor of Health Policy and Management, New York University
  September 22, 2009

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• Designing Administrative Organizations for Health Reform
  Paul N. Van de Water Senior Fellow, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities
  September 21, 2009

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• Re-Figuring Federalism: Nation and State in Health Reform's Next Round

  Lawrence D. Brown Professor of Public Health, Columbia University

  September 18, 2009

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• Designing a Mixed Public and Private System for the Health Insurance Market
  Bryan Dowd Professor, University of Minnesota
  September 17, 2009

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• Cost Containment and Coverage Expansion
  Mark Merlis Health Policy Consultant
  September 16, 2009

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• Role of Health Insurance Regulation
  Timothy Stoltzfus Jost Robert L. Willett Family Professor of Law and Ethan Allen Faculty Fellow, Washington and Lee University: School of Law
  September 15, 2009

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• Simplifying Administration of Health Insurance
  Mark Merlis Health Policy Consultant
  July 13, 2009

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• Restructuring Health Insurance Markets
  Elliot K. Wicks Senior Economist, Health Management Associates
  July 10, 2009

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• Business and Retirement Income – What Role in the Future?
  Anna M. Rappaport
  President, Anna Rappaport Consulting
  June 29, 2009

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• Administering Health Insurance Mandates
  C. Eugene Steuerle Vice President, Peter G. Peterson Foundation
  June 26, 2009

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• Paying a Fair Share for Health Coverage and Care
  Jill Bernstein Health Policy Consultant
  June 24, 2009

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• Don't Worry, Be Happy: Characterization of Social Security Trust Funds
  A. Haeworth Robertson Former Chief Actuary, Social Security Administration, 1975-78
  June 19, 2009

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• Strengthening Social Security Wage Reporting For Farm Workers
  Barbara Robles Associate Professor, School of Social Work, Arizona State University
  April 22, 2009

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• Increasing Social Security Benefits for Low-Wage Single Retirees
  Patricia E. Dilley Professor of Law, University of Florida Levin College of Law
  April 20, 2009

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• A New Social Security Minimum Benefit For Low Lifetime Earners
  Melissa Favreault Senior Research Associate, The Urban Institute
  April 17, 2009

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• Why Do We Call Taxes a `Burden'?
  Rashi Fein
  April 15, 2009

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• Improving Benefits for Widowed Spouses of Low-Earning Couples
  Joan Entmacher Vice President for Family Economic Security, National Women’s Law Center
  April 13, 2009

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• Increasing Social Security Benefits at Advanced Ages
  John Turner Director, Pension Policy Center
  April 10, 2009

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• Easing the Impact of Increasing the Retirement Age: Occupational Disability
  Eric Klieber Director, Retirement Actuary, Buck Consultants
  April 08, 2009

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• Increasing Social Security Benefits for Family Elder Caregivers
  Shelley White-Means Professor of Health Economics, University of Tennessee Health Science Center
  April 06, 2009

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• Helping Homeless Individuals with Serious Mental Illness Get Disability Benefits
  Yvonne Perret Executive Director, Advocacy and Training Center
  April 03, 2009

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• Increasing the Social Security Special Minimum Benefit and Updating SSI
  Laura Sullivan Research Assistant, Institute on Assets and Social Policy, Brandeis University
  March 31, 2009

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• A Social Security Supplement for Low-Income Working Parents
  Pamela Herd Assistant Professor of Public Affairs and Sociology, La Follette School of Public Affairs, University of Wisconsin
  March 27, 2009

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• Reducing Eligibility Requirements for Retirement Benefits
  Andrew Biggs Resident Scholar, American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research
  March 25, 2009

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• Protecting Social Security Benefits from Garnishment
  John Infranca Judicial Clerk, The Honorable Berle M. Schiller, Federal Judiciary, Eastern District of Pennsylvania
  March 24, 2009

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• Correcting David Broder on Social Security
  Tom Bethell
  March 09, 2009

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• Social Security is Shovel-Ready
  Robert Hudson
  Professor and Chair, Department of Social Welfare Policy, Boston University
  March 06, 2009

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