Why Social Security?

I’ve been busy so I probably missed something that explains this: why is Social Security reform in the news now? Is it because of Alan Simpson? Is it because a huge health reform bill has already passed this year? Is it election year politics? What?

Whatever the reason, I think it is instructive to keep in mind the relative size of Social Security’s financial problems with that of social health programs.

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Austin Frakt

Austin Frakt, PhD, is co-Editor-in-Chief of The Incidental Economist. His day job is Associate Director of the Partnered Evidence-based Policy Resource Center at the Boston VA Healthcare System, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. He is also a Professor with the Department of Health Law, Policy and Management at the Boston University’s School of Public Health, a Principal Research Scientist with the Department of Health Policy and Management at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, and Editor-in-Chief of the journal Health Services Research.

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