Expertise
Budget policy and politics; health care cost, financing, and rationing; Medicaid; Medicare; Social Security; tax policy
Background
Current Positions
Member, Visiting Committee, Harvard Medical and Dental Schools; Member, Institute of Medicine;Chairman of the Board of Directors, National Academy of Social Insurance; Director, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, Abt Associates; Member, American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Past Positions
Chairman of the Board of Directors, National Academy of Social Insurance; President, Association of Public Policy and Management; Vice President, American Economic Association; Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, Department of Health, Education, and Welfare; Chairman, Advisory Council on Social Security;Trustee, Georgetown University, College Retirement Equities Fund (CREF)
Education
Ph.D. (1963), M.A. (1960), Harvard University;B.A., University of California at Los Angeles, 1958