The Future of Social Insurance : Incremental Action or Fundamental Reform?

Front Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Information -- Preface -- Table of Contents -- Part I: Introduction -- Overview -- The New Economy: Bolstering the Case for Social Insurance -- Part II: Issues in Social Security Reform -- Future Investment Returns and Social Insurance -- Low-Wage Earners: Options for Improving Their Retirement Income -- Assessing Assumptions about Attitudes toward Social Security: Popular Claims Meet Hard Data -- Part III: The Future of Retirement Income -- The Changing Face of Private Retirment Plans -- How Should We Insure Longevity Risk in Pensions and Social Security? -- Part IV: The Future of Unemployment Insurance -- Issues in Unemployment Insurance -- Part V: Reflections on Welfare Reform -- Welfare Reform after Five Years -- Part VI: The Future of Medicare -- Medicare's Long-Term Financing -- Medicare Management and Governance -- Medicare and Markets: The Need for a New Framework to Guide Reform -- Chronic Care and Medicare -- Part VII: Philanthropic Initiatives in Health Security -- Health Foundations Respond to the Uninsured -- The San Diego County Health Coverage Initiative -- Community Voices: Health Care for the Underserved -- Epilogue -- The Future of Social Insurance -- Contributors -- Conference Program -- Index -- Back Cover.

A Brookings Institution Press and National Academy for Social Insurance publication In this new conference volume from the National Academy of Social Insurance, experts offer differing views on what changes will, and must, occur to ensure the continuing viability of Social Security, retirement benefits, unemployment insurance, Medicare, and health security programs. The book opens with a general overview of how economic and political forces will shape the future of social insurance. In the chapters that follow, contributors discuss and debate a full range of related topics, including future Social Security investment returns, the changing face of private retirement plans, insuring longevity risk in pensions and Social Security, issues in unemployment insurance, long-term financing, governance, and markets for Medicare, and health care for the underserved and uninsured. Contributors include William C. Dudley (Goldman Sachs), Richard Berner (Morgan Stanley Dean Witter), Kilolo Kijakazi (Center on Budget and Policy Priorities), Fay Lomax Cook (Institute for Policy Research, Northwestern University), Lawrence Jacobs (University of Minnesota), Jack VanDerhei (Fox School of Business Management, Temple University) Craig Copeland (Employee Benefit Research Institute), Jeffery R. Brown (John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard), Janet Norwood (1993-96 Advisory Council on Unemployment Compensation), Marilyn Moon (Urban Institute), Sheila Burke (Smithsonian Institution and Kennedy School of Government, Harvard), Mark Schlesinger (Yale), Gerard Anderson (Johns Hopkins University), Lauren LeRoy (Grantmakers in Health), Ruth Riedel (Alliance Healthcare Foundation of San Diego), and Henrie M. Treadwell (W. K. Kellog Foundation¡¯s Community Voices).

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