SPRING 2005
The American Way of Insuring Health and Income Security

OUR GUEST EDITOR: Robert B. Friedland INTRODUCTION FEATURED ARTICLE: Insuring Real Life By Robert B. Friedland BACKGROUND Compared to Other Countries: How Exceptional Are the Health and Income Security Arrangements of the United States? By Joseph White FEATURED ARTICLE: Insuring Health and Income Needs of Future Generations By Donna Yee Perspectives of Younger People: A New Voice in an Old Debate By Kaja Snell THE PROGRAMS AND HOW THEY WORK How Social Security Works By Virginia P. Reno How Supplemental Security Income Works By Robert Applebaum and Michael Payne How Medicare Works By Robert B. Friedland How Medicaid Works By Robert B. Friedland The Mutuality of Employee Benefits and Tax Expenditures By Dallas L. Salisbury POLICY ISSUES AND OPTIONS Why We Can Afford Social Security By Peter A. Diamond and Peter R. Orszag The Case for Pre-funding Social Security By JeVrey R. Brown FEATURED ARTICLE: Confronting the Rising Costs of Healthcare in Medicare and Medicaid By Marilyn Moon Medicare and Medicaid: Trends and Issues Affecting Access to Care for Low-Income Elders and People with Disabilities By Ellen O’Brien
		How to Deal with the Financing Issues of Social Security and Medicare: The Smart Money Is on Productivity By Robert B. Friedland POLITICS OF SOCIAL INSURANCE The Value of Social Security and Medicare to Families By Judith Feder and Robert B. Friedland American Values and Social Justice: Why Medicare Today Is in Conflict with Our Social Values By Stuart Butler American Values and Social Justice: Who Should Pay for Elders’ Income and Healthcare Security? By Ann Neale IMPLEMENTING THE NEW MEDICARE LEGISLATION Medicare Part D and Low-Income Medicare Beneficiaries By Bonnie Burns Medicare Reform on the Ground: An Update on the Medicare Drug Program By Robert M. Hayes MYTHS AND REALITIES Myths and Realities About Social Security and Privatization By Barbara B. Kennelly Not on the Radar: Illegal Immigrants Are Bolstering Social Security By Eduardo Porter

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