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.
Framing the Social Security Debate: Values, Politics, and Economics
By: R. Douglas Arnold, Michael J. Graetz, and Alicia H. Munnell (eds.)
Published:November 1998
Proceedings from the Tenth Conference. Examines issues of social security reform, privatization, national savings and economic growth.
Available through the Brookings Institution Press, call (800) 275-1447.