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
"The President has taken a position, which I believe is not factually accurate…that this is a form of national or socialized medicine-- that’s just not true. The SCHIP program operates primarily by states contracting with private health care providers; managed care organizations to provide coverage to young people."