Henry J. Aaron

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Senior Fellow, Economic Studies | The Bruce and Virginia MacLaury Chair

A noted health care expert, Henry Aaron focuses on the reform of health care financing; public systems such as Medicare and Medicaid; Social Security; and tax and budget policy. | View Full Bio

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Expertise

  • Budget policy and politics
  • health care cost, financing, and rationing
  • Medicaid
  • Medicare
  • Social Security
  • tax policy

Experience

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

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Henry J. Aaron

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"The cost of health care is going to keep going up. It’s going to go up because we’re getting older and as we get older we use more health care and it’s going to go up because science is keeping on producing wonderful new things that physicians and hospitals can do. And they cost money. What we can do is eliminate the needlessly expensive way in which we now provide health care."

Source: Nightly Business Report

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