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

by Peter Edelman, Dallas L. Salisbury, Pamela J. Larson

Overview

"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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Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780815702139
Publisher:	Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Publication date:	12/01/2001
Series:	A National Academy of Social Insurance Bks.
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	338
Product dimensions:	6.05(w) x 9.09(h) x 0.88(d)

About the Author

"Peter Edelman is professor of law at the Georgetown University Law Center. Dallas L. Salisbury is president of the Employee Benefit Research Institute. Pamela J. Larson is executive vice president of the National Academy of Social Insurance."

Table of Contents

Part I.	Introduction	1
1.	Overview	3
2.	The New Economy: Bolstering the Case for Social Insurance	16
Part II.	Issues in Social Security Reform	31
3.	Future Investment Returns and Social Insurance	33
4.	Low-Wage Earners: Options for Improving Their Retirement Income	41
5.	Assessing Assumptions about Attitudes Toward Social Security: Popular Claims Meet Hard Data	82
	Comment	111
	Comment	114
	Comment	116
Part III.	The Future of Retirement Income	119
6.	The Changing Face of Private Retirement Plans	121
7.	How Should We Insure Longevity Risk in Pensions and Social Security?	148
	Comment	173
	Comment	178
	Comment	181
Part IV.	The Future of Unemployment Insurance	185
8.	Issues in Unemployment Insurance	187
	Comment	199
	Comment	204
	Comment	208
Part V.	Reflections on Welfare Reform	211
9.	Welfare Reform after Five Years	213
Part VI.	The Future of Medicare	235
10.	Medicare's Long-Term Financing	237
11.	Medicare's Management and Governance	243
12.	Medicare and Markets: The Need for a New Framework to Guide Reform	248
13.	Chronic Care and Medicare	257
Part VII.	Philanthropic Initiatives in Health Security	263
14.	Health Foundations Respond to the Uninsured	265
15.	The San Diego County Health Coverage Initiative	272
16.	Community Voices: Health Care for the Underserved	278
	Comment	291
	Comment	295
	Epilogue: The Future of Social Insurance	301
	Contributors	311
	Conference Program	317
	Index	321