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Policymakers Urged to Support Medicare Reform

Wed, 12/06/2000 - 12:00am — Karen Stevenson
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Several highly-respected experts spoke to the Special Committee on Aging at a special forum titled "Living Longer, Living Better, The Challenge to Policymakers." They talked to policymakers about Medicare and Social Security reform, the need for geriatrics education in the U.S., and the impact of changing patterns of retirement and demographics. The presenters included Fay Lomax Cook, Director, Institute for Policy Research, and Professor of Human Development and Social Policy, Northwestern University; Gary Burtless, Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution; Robert Butler, Founding Director of the National Institute on Aging and President of the International Longevity Center-USA; Elizabeth Kutza, Director, Institute on Aging, Portland State University; Marilyn Moon, Senior Fellow, The Urban Institute; and Tim Smeeding, Professor of Economics and Public Administration, Center for Policy Research, Syracuse University. Their testimony is available on the Aging Committee Web site.

Several highly-respected experts spoke to the Special Committee on Aging at a special forum titled "Living Longer, Living Better, The Challenge to Policymakers." They talked to policymakers about Medicare and Social Security reform, the need for geriatrics education in the U.S., and the impact of changing patterns of retirement and demographics. The presenters included Fay Lomax Cook, Director, Institute for Policy Research, and Professor of Human Development and Social Policy, Northwestern University; Gary Burtless, Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution; Robert Butler, Founding Director of the National Institute on Aging and President of the International Longevity Center-USA; Elizabeth Kutza, Director, Institute on Aging, Portland State University; Marilyn Moon, Senior Fellow, The Urban Institute; and Tim Smeeding, Professor of Economics and Public Administration, Center for Policy Research, Syracuse University. Their testimony is available on the Aging Committee Web site.