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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.
NASI In The News
- March 20, 2017
Trump Budget Director Takes Aim at “Wasteful” Social Security Program That Helps Disabled Americans
- February 13, 2017
Nonpartisan Report Offers Menu of Options to Policymakers for Strengthening Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, Unemployment Insurance
- February 10, 2017
Nonpartisan Expert Panel Recommends Steps to Strengthen Medicaid’s Role in Building a Culture of Health
- February 2017
Social Insurance Issues for the 2017 Washington Leadership
- January 29, 2017
Here's the Average Social Security Benefit -- and Why It's Not Enough
- January 24, 2017
New Nonpartisan Report to the New Leadership and the American People on Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, Unemployment Insurance, and Caregiving
- January 19, 2017
Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew to be Visiting Professor at Columbia's School of International and Public Affairs
- January 19, 2017
Social Insurance: Opportunities and Challenges Facing the New Leadership and the American People
- January 13, 2017
$1 Billion A Week Spent on Serious but Non-Fatal Injuries in U.S. Workplaces
- December 27, 2016
Nonfatal Workplace Injuries and the Direct Cost to Businesses
- December 13, 2016
Americans Are More Willing to Cut Social Security Than Once Thought
- December 8, 2016
DOL Announces New Appointments, Leadership for 2017 ERISA Advisory Council
- December 7, 2016
Washington State Aims To Get A Better Grip On Workers’ Compensation Costs
- December 2016
Defining Documentation Requirements for Coding Quality Care in Workers’ Compensation
- October 24, 2016
Workers’ Comp Benefits for Injured Workers Reach Historic Lows: Report
- October 18, 2016
Zelizer Named Member of the National Academy of Social Insurance
- October 16, 2016
Nation’s Largest Seniors Group Is Using Conservative Scare Tactics On Social Security
- October 6, 2016
Workers’ Comp Benefits for Injured Workers Reach Historic Lows: Report
- October 5, 2016
DOL and NASI Release Anticipated Reports on Workers' Compensation
- September 13, 2016
Does Clinical Integration Reduce Risk, Lower Cost of Care?
- September 1, 2016
Democratic Party Unified: Hillary Clinton, DNC platform, 43 Senate Democrats, and 120 U.S. House Members Support Expanding Social Security
- August 4, 2016
Will America’s Seniors Vote Against Their Own Self-Interests...Again?
- August 1, 2016
With billions lost and lives shaken by workplace injuries, safety is more than a priority
- July 14, 2016
Three Indian Americans among 21 selected by Aspen Institute for Health Innovators Fellowship
- June 3, 2016
Workers’ Compensation premiums remain high despite lowered costs
- May 2, 2016
How Things Get Done In Washington: Insights From 23 Former CMS Leaders
- April 23, 2016
The Stupid Simple Way Social Security Can Be Fixed That's Being Overlooked
- March 8, 2016
Recessions and Retirement: How Stock Market and Labor Market Fluctuations Affect Older Workers
- March 1, 2016
New Health Care Symposium: High Prices And Payment Reform—Let’s Get Practical
- February 29, 2016
Acting Commissioner Keynotes at the National Academy of Social Insurance Annual Conference
- January 28, 2016
The US has less income inequality today than in 2000. Just pointing that out.
- January 15, 2016
Overexertion Injuries Top Liberty Mutual's 2016 List
- January 14, 2016
The Most Serious Workplace Injuries Cost U.S. Companies $62 Billion Per Year, According to 2016 Liberty Mutual Workplace Safety Index
- December 28, 2015
The Sanders-Clinton Spat Over Middle-Class Taxes Is About A Lot More Than Money
- October 22, 2015
Workers’ Compensation Cuts Add to Increase in SSDI Beneficiaries
- October 15, 2015
No cost of living hike for Social Security recipients next year, government says
- October 13, 2015
Callous Kasich Tells Retiree Worried He Intends To Slash Social Security To “Get Over It”
- September 28, 2015
Quick, When Do You Claim Social Security? What Do You Get If Your Ex Dies?
- September 14, 2015
COLUMN: Will they discuss the economy in the next GOP debate?
- September 9, 2015
Investing in Millennials Through an Economy that Works for All: Testimony Before the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on the Budget
- August 30, 2015
Eight Ways To Get Your Retirement Finances In Shape Now
- August 26, 2015
The questions candidates should be asked in the next GOP debate
- August 12, 2015
Benefit reductions not easing employer's workers comp cost increases
- August 7, 2015
White House Conference on Aging: Exercise in Benign Neglect of Retirement Income Crisis?
- July 31, 2015
Sixth White House Conference on Aging: Now It’s Time to Do More. A Lot More.
- July 10, 2015
Health reform after King with Professor Timothy Jost and Henry Aaron
- July 9, 2015
How Liberals and Conservatives Are Working Together To Improve Long-Term Care
- July 7, 2015
Elavon Partners with Emdeon to Launch Transend Pay That Speeds Up Healthcare Insurance Payments
- June 26, 2015
Experts stress increased need for more long-term care initiatives, funding
- June 17, 2015
How well do you understand Social Security? Take this quick quiz to find out
- June 16, 2015
Country’s biggest workers’ comp provider retreats from market, disrupts industry
- June 6, 2015
Country’s biggest workers’ comp provider retreats from market, disrupts industry
- April 28, 2015
Pricing Power in Health Care Markets
- April 21, 2015
What can we take from the ProPublica/NPR investigative reports on Workers' Compensation?
- April 17, 2015
Experts Announce Strategies To Make Health Care Markets More Competitive, Regulate Prices
- April 14, 2015
Amy Berman Guest Speaker for Campaign to End Unwanted Medical Treatment
- April 5, 2015
America Can Afford To Increase Social Security, Despite What The Washington Post Says
- March 19, 2015
Insurance Information Institute Slams ProPublica/NPR Comp Report
- March 18, 2015
Insurance Information Institute Challenges Our Workers’ Comp Investigation. We Respond
- March 18, 2015
Guest view: Benefits of Illinois; workers’ comp reform grabbed by insurance companies.
- March 9, 2015
Study: Little evidence that integrating hospital, physician care improves quality or reduces costs
- March 9, 2015
Public Radio Report Puts Spotlight on Workers’ Compensation’s ‘Grand Bargain’
- March 7, 2015
Commentary | Integrated delivery networks: Is the whole less than sum of the parts?
- March 5, 2015
The Key to Lowering Workers’ Compensation Costs is Insurance Transparency and Oversight
- March 4, 2015
Covered: A Week-by-Week Look at the 1965 Politics that Created Medicare and Medicaid
- February 26, 2015
Study Urges Greater Financial Disclosure by Nonprofit Integrated Health Systems
- February 3, 2015
New Year's Retirement Resolution to Keep: Develop a Social Security Strategy
- January 26, 2015
Saving Social Security will require innovation from Beltway boobs
- January 16, 2015
GOP Congressman outlines goal of new Social Security rule: cutting disability benefits
- January 8, 2015
Why Defending Social Security Needs to Be Next on Obama’s To-Do List
- December 17, 2014
Secret Christmas Wish For Majority of Social Security Recipients -- Making Ends Meet, Says The Senior Citizens League
- December 5, 2014
Americans make hard choices on Social Security: a survey with trade-off analysis
- November 7, 2014
The week that was in Illinois and national news and politics (November 3, 2014 - November 7, 2014.)
- November 5, 2014
GOP, Democratic voters agree on one thing: Stabilizing Social Security
- October 24, 2014
Most Americans Would Pay More to Fix Social Security's Finances, Improve Benefits
- October 24, 2014
Social Security reform should boost benefits and taxes, poll finds
- October 24, 2014
Most Americans Would Pay More to Fix Social Security's Finances, Improve Benefits
- October 24, 2014
Income up to $118,500 subject to Social Security taxes in 2015
- October 23, 2014
GOP changes tune on cutting Social Security with elections on the line
- October 21, 2014
R.I. ranks in top 20 for growth in workers’ compensation paid
- September 11, 2014
Social Security Benefits Are Only Income for 43 Percent of Retired Latinos, Immigration Reform and Minimum Wage Hike Could Help
- September 4, 2014
Governor creates commission to tackle workers’ comp costs
- August 26, 2014
Growing earnings, workforce pushed comp costs up 6.9% in 2012: Report
- August 5, 2014
DEFENDER OF OBAMACARE ARCHITECT ALSO MADE 'TYPOS' ABOUT INSURANCE SUBSIDIES
- July 28, 2014
CBO Finds Medicare Looking a Little Healthier, But What About Social Security?
- July 14, 2014
Disability funds squeezed by budget impasse, Lawmakers disagree on how to keep money flowing
- July 8, 2014
It's time to expand Social Security, not cut it, Sen. Sherrod Brown says
- June 27, 2014
Wondering When to Retire and Begin Collecting Social Security?
- June 4, 2014
Another Voice: Candidates should focus on mending the ailing Social Security Disability program
- June 3, 2014
Acknowledging The Elephant: Moving Market Power And Prices To The Center Of Health Policy
- May 12, 2014
Aspen Institute's Mensah Nominated Rural Development Undersecretary
- April 16, 2014
Social Security or Social Insecurity? Millennials Should Watch out for Future
- April 2, 2014
Two past recipients of RWJF Investigator Awards, Harold Pollack, PhD, MPP, and Suzanne Mettler, PhD, have been elected to the National Academy of Social Insurance.
- March 27, 2014
David S. Blitzstein, Appointee for Member, Advisory Committee to the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation
- March 21, 2014
Eliminating Aggressive Social Security Claiming Strategies” – Implementation Matters
- March 15, 2014
Five strategies to get the most Social Security
- March 12, 2014
National Science Foundation selects Northwestern University Professor Fay Lomax Cook to head Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences Directorate
- February 27, 2014
Patience Is a Virtue: How to Make up to 76 Percent More in Retirement
- January 30, 2014
Polling Shows Americans Want Retirement Policy Reform
- January 8, 2014
Why Expanding Social Security Is Crucial to Addressing Inequality in America in 2014
- January 5, 2014
Social Security taxable earnings cap in 2014 is $117,000. Thousands have already hit that tax limit.
- November 21, 2013
Social Security, which protects old and young, needs bolstering
- October 30, 2013
As Budget Conference Begins, 1.5 Percent 2014 Social Security COLA Underscores Need to Address Retirement Security Crisis
- October 28, 2013
California: Benefit payments 'more than double' those of next highest state
- October 17, 2013
Weigh in: How would you fix Social Security? Can Social Security be fixed?
- October 14, 2013
Republicans' Latest Ransom Note: Cut Social Security or the Economy Gets It
- September 30, 2013
Employers paid $77.1 billion; injured workers received $60.2 billion in 2011
- September 16, 2013
New York Workers Compensation Lawyer Adnan Munawar of Munawar & Andrews-Santillo LLP Comments on the Recent NASI Workers Compensation Report on Rising Costs
- August 28, 2013
Report finds smaller payout on workers' comp benefits in Ohio for 2011
- August 20, 2013
Workers’ compensation benefits rise in R.I., fall in Mass.
- July 8, 2013Media Coverage Of Social Security Ignores Proposals That Assist Beneficiaries
- July 8, 2013
Republicans Expect the Elderly, Poor and Unemployed to Pay Off Their Debt
- July 8, 2013
Republicans Expect the Elderly, Poor and Unemployed to Pay Off Their Debt
- June 3, 2013The Social Security 2013 Trustees Report Is Out... But What Does It Mean for People With Disabilities? Eight Things You Need to Know
- June 2, 2013PBS: Missing Context and Incomplete Reporting Mislead the Public About Disability and Social Security
- April 25, 2013
Does workers' compensation adequately cover workers with relatively high earnings?
- March 27, 2013This American Life Criticized For Defending Misleading Disability Benefits Report
- March 8, 2013Op-Ed: Obama will agree to sell out seniors in changing Social Security
- February 15, 2013Regular people are smarter than pundits, at least when it comes to Social Security
- February 14, 2013
Social Security exempt from sequester, but not off the chopping block
- February 12, 2013Why Democrats and Republicans Can’t Agree on Medicare Reform
- February 11, 2013
Increasing Social Security Benefits: An Idea Whose Time Has Come
- February 8, 2013We Know You Hear Us, But Are You Really Listening to Us on Social Security?
- February 6, 2013Thinking About The Social Security Debate
- February 4, 2013
The nation has no viable strategy to help people finance their long-term care
- February 4, 2013Americans overwhelmingly prefer raising payroll taxes & increasing Social Security benefits
- February 4, 2013
As Public Makes 'Hard Choices' on Social Security, Alan Simpson Ducks His "Moment of Truth"
- February 1, 2013Survey: Public not just opposed to Social Security cuts, they'll pay to strengthen it
- January 31, 2013
Americans want to raise payroll taxes and Social Security benefits
- January 31, 2013Americans shocked to learn that there isn’t actually a Social Security crisis
- January 31, 2013
Americans want to prop up Social Security — but not on their backs
- January 27, 2013Now That Sen. Harkin Is Retiring, Who Will Rescue Our Retirement?
- December 23, 2012
Carrying the load: ERGOdynamics of Eugene sees demand for powered lifts, carts
- December 18, 2012'Tweak' in inflation formula or significant cut in Social Security benefits?
- December 13, 2012Medicare Silver Bullets: What’s The Best Way To Control Costs?
- October 30, 2012Fox Obscures Important Facts To Attack Disability Benefits
- September 22, 2012
New York shows signs of improvement along measures of economic growth, still needs to improve tax climate
- September 20, 2012
Report outlines IT challenges and guidelines for state HIXs
- September 20, 2012
Report Aims To Guide States on Using IT in Insurance Exchanges
- August 24, 2012
Report Shows Employers Workers Comp Costs at Lowest Level Since 1980
- August 18, 2012
Farm and Food: Rural America's stake in Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security
- August 9, 2012
U.S. Rep. Allen West, D-Fla., says the number of people who went on Social Security Disability Insurance in June was higher than the number of jobs created that month
- July 24, 2012Atkins and Landers: Medicaid: High stakes in health coverage question
- July 22, 2012
'You've Earned A Say': Seniors asked for opinions about Social Security
- May 15, 2012
Georgetown Study: New Insurance Marketplaces Need Greater Collaboration
- May 11, 2012Recent research discovers new health care reform marketplaces will need significant coordination
- April 30, 2012
Don’t Just Panic Over Social Security’s Worsening Finances- Do Something About it.
- April 5, 2012
US health research estimates occupational injury and illness costs $250bn
- April 3, 2012
More Americans are filing disability insurance claims than ever before. Why is that and what does it mean?
- February 2, 2012
Research Roundup:Beyond GDP, Romneycare vs Obamacare, and More
- January 27, 2012
North Carolina Workers’ Compensation Lawyer Points Out Leading Causes of Workplace Injury Costs
- January 17, 2012
Cost of Job-Related Illnesses Exceeds Costs of All Cancers, Diabetes and Strokes
- January 11, 2012
Iowa workers’ compensation commissioner files $1 million lawsuit against the state
- January 10, 2012
Top 5 workplace injury causes make up 72% of direct workers comp costs
- December 26, 2011
National Academy of Social Insurance Issues Report on New Exchange Options
- December 22, 2011
Affiliate elected to National Academy of Social Insurance
- December 21, 2011
NASI Report Examines Continuum of State Options for Exchanges
- October 1, 2011
Conservative activist Steve Lonegan claims “Social Security system is broke."
- September 20, 2011
Study Says WC Premiums Tied to Stock-Market Performance Rather Than Claims
- July 12, 2011
Retiree group says Social Security doesn't contribute a penny to U.S. deficit
- July 12, 2011
Retiree group says Social Security doesn't contribute a penny to U.S. deficit
- June 30, 2011
U.S. Rep. Ron Kind says that "thanks to Medicare," 75% fewer seniors are in poverty, and most have health coverage
- June 17, 2011
Have Social Security Benefits Really Been Cut by 19 Percent?
- June 15, 2011
Can Exchanges Help Consumers Get Insurance That's A Good Value? Depends On Where You Live.
- June 9, 2011
New Study Finds Future Retirees Already Face Steep Social Security Benefits Cut
- June 9, 2011New study finds future retirees already face steep Social Security benefits cut
- June 8, 2011
Changes to Social Security Will Result in 19% Decrease in Benefits for Future Retirees
- June 6, 2011
ACA gives states flexibility in creating insurance exchanges, says report
- June 6, 2011
New Analysis Outlines "Active Purchaser" Options for Health Insurance Exchanges.
- June 3, 2011
Ensuring That The Health Exchanges Are Not Just An ‘Automated Yellow Pages’
- May 13, 2011
Personal Finance: Raise the retirement age to keep Social Security solvent? Here's another idea
- May 2, 2011
New NASI paper: “Should Social Security’s Cost-of-Living Adjustment Be Changed?”
- December 16, 2010
Social Security: Small Change To Have A Big Impact On Benefits
- November 23, 2010
Deficit Panel has Social Security in its Sights
- November 12, 2010
"Experts Say Plan for Targeted Improvements, 75-Year Financing Strengthens Social Security."
- November 10, 2010
In an Op-Ed discussing ideas to address the issues facing Social Security for the long run, NASI's President Janice Gregory compares them to the challenges faced by the program in 1983 and how they were addressed.
- November 10, 2010
NASI's brief, Strengthening Social Security for the Long Run, and the presentation from our Nov. 10th Capitol Hill briefing are referenced in a post on the official blog of the nonprofit Frances Perkins Center.
- October 6, 2010
In an article discussing the possibility of expanding Social Security benefits, Saul Friedman, cites NASI's report, Fixing Social Security: Adequate Benefits, Adequate Financing.
- September 28, 2010
NASI's annual report Workers' Compensation: Benefits, Coverage, and Costs, is cited in an article discussing California's workers' compensation system.
- September 20, 2010
Workers' Compensation: Benefits, Coverage, and Costs 2008 is cited along with Prof. John F. Burton, chair of NASI's workers' compensation study panel, in an article discussing the findings of the study.
- September 14, 2010
Politico mentions NASI's project on developing model statutes for health insurance exchanges in an article discussing the impact of the exchanges on the states.
- August 27, 2010
Fixing Social Security: Adequate Benefits, Adequate Financing is cited in a post by Mark Miller on ideas to bolster the Social Security program.
- August 24, 2010
NASI Income Security Research Associate Ben Veghte was interviewed by the international news agency Voice of America in a report on Social Security from a global perspective.
- August 24, 2010"Decline in Fertility Rates, Recession Cause Global Social Security Problems"
- August 12, 2010
Senator Max Baucus (D-Mont.) cites NASI's Vice President for Income Security Policy, Virginia Reno, in his floor statement regarding Social Security's 75th birthday.
- August 10, 2010
Citing NASI, Robert Elisberg discusses some of the recent proposals being presented in the current conversation on the future of Social Security.
- August 9, 2010
C-SPAN coverage of NASI's briefing, What’s the News in the 2010 Social Security Trustees Report?, held at the Rayburn House Office Building.
- August 6, 2010
Social Security Finances: Findings of the 2010 Trustees Report, NASI's annual brief on the report of the Social Security Trustees is cited in an post discussing important details of the report.
- August 4, 2010
Janice Nittoli, Associate Vice President & Managing Director for the Rockefeller Foundation, references NASI report Economic Crisis Fuels Support for Social Security: Americans' Views on Social Security in her post, "Back to Basics on Social Security."
- August 3, 2010
NASI brief, Tough Times Require Strong Social Security Benefits, is cited in an article by Edwin Hill discussing the impact and importance of the Social Security program on its 75th anniversary.
- July 27, 2010
Virginia Reno, Vice President for Income Security for NASI is quoted in a post by Mark Miller on the Reuters Deep Pocket blog.
- July 12, 2010
In a story on a Pensions and Investments round table on the future of Social Security System, NASI members Nancy J. Altman, Dean Baker, and Virginia Reno, vice president for income security for NASI shared their thoughts on the urgency for changes to the system and just what the changes should be.
- July 2, 2010
Wilhelmina Leigh, NASI member with the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies, cites Economic Crisis Fuels Support for Social Security: Americans' Views on Social Security in her post on why Social Security should be strengthened and not cut.
- July 2010
The testimony of NASI President Janice Gregory before the National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform is cited in an article discussing the June 30, 2010 public hearing.
- June 30, 2010
Citing NASI reports Tough Times Require Strong Social Security Benefits: Views on Social Security among African Americans, Hispanic Americans, and White, Americans and Fixing Social Security: Adequate Benefits, Adequate Financing, Wilhelmina Leigh of the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies, reflects on the 75th birthday of the Social Security program and its importance to all Americans in a article on The Root.
- May 30, 2010
In his article "Take the Offensive Against Social Security Killers: Here's How" Saul Friedman, Columnist with Gray Matters, references NASI report, "A New Deal for Young Adults: Social Security Benefits for Post-Secondary School Students", in his relfections on actions that advocates of the Social Security program can take in the ongoing conversation on the status and future of the program.
- May 26, 2010
NASI report, Fixing Social Security: Adequate Benefits, Adequate Financing is cited in an article on the Huffington Post by Ashley Carson, Executive Director, OWL. The article discusses the President's Fiscal Commission and its possible implications on Social Security.
- May 18, 2010
In "Restoring the Social Security student benefit: The best policy idea you haven’t heard of yet," Terence Kane of Generations United discusses the NASI brief, "A New Deal for Young Adults: Social Security Benefits for Post-Secondary School Students."
- April 9, 2010
The findings of the National Academy of Social Insurance / National Academy of Public Administration joint study panel, Administrative Solutions in Health Reform, is cited in an article discussing the impact of the new health reform law on the IRS.
- February 24, 2010
In an article on President Obama's National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform and its possible impact on Social Security, Sam Gill cites NASI's poll report "Economic Crisis Fuels Support for Social Security: Americans' Views on Social Security."
- February 23, 2010
Discussing the importance of Social Security for ethnic elders and those with disabilities, New America Media's Generations Beat Online references NASI study "Tough Times Require Strong Benefits: Views on Social Security Among African Americans, Hispanic Americans and White Americans"
- February 20, 2010
The Wall Street Journal lists NASI's brief "When to Take Social Security Benefits: Questions to Consider" as a part of it's list of "The Best Resources for Later Life".
- February 3, 2010
Winning essay in iOMe Challenge cites NASI's report, Fixing Social Security: Adequate Benefits, Adequate Financing, as well as work by NASI founder NASI members.
- January 22, 2010
Carnegie Mellon highlights Jessie B. Ramey, the 18th Annual winner of the John Heinz Dissertation Award.
- December 17, 2009
Ashley Carson, Executive Director of OWL – The Voice of Midlife and Older Women, discusses Social Security's importance at a recent NASI event at the U.S. Capital.
- October 1, 2009
The Columbia Basin Herald cites NASI in a story on the cost of workers' compensation premiums in Washington State.
- September 24, 2009
Merton Bernstein, founding member of NASI, is quoted in a story on health coverage in Massachusetts.
- August 13, 2009
A new NASI poll shows preference for raising taxes to preserve Social Security.
- August 3, 2009Employer-based insurance is less extensive than believed, says health insurance expert.
