| March 23, 2005
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For Immediate Release: March 23, 2005
Contact: Jill Braunstein, (202) 452-8097
WASHINGTON, DC— Experts on Social Security and Medicare are available to comment on the implications of the 2005 Trustees Reports immediately following their release. All experts listed below are members of the National Academy of Social Insurance (NASI).
NASI is a nonpartisan organization made up of the nation’s leading experts on Social Security, Medicare, and other programs. The Academy does not lobby or take positions on policy issues. Individual members have diverse views; individuals’ views do not represent the official position(s) of the Academy.
An explanatory brief, Social Security Finances: Findings of the 2005 Trustees Report, is available on the Academy’s website at www.nasi.org, along with information about Social Security finances, solvency options and personal accounts in Social Security.
SOCIAL SECURITY EXPERTS
Kenneth S. Apfel
Former Commissioner of Social Security; Current Sid Richardson Chair of Public Affairs, LBJ School of Public Affairs, University of Texas at Austin
Phone: 512-471-6267
Email: kapfel@mail.utexas.edu
Robert M. Ball
Former Commissioner of Social Security
Phone: 301-541-5097
Jeffrey R. Brown
Assistant Professor of Finance, University of Illinois–Urbana Champaign
Phone: 217-333-3322
Email: brownjr@uiuc.edu
Marilyn Moon
Vice President and Director, American Institutes for Research
Phone: 301-592-2101
Email: mmoon@air.org
Robert Myers
Former Chief Actuary, Social Security Administration
Phone: 301-588-1335
Peter Orszag
Joseph A. Pechman Senior Fellow, The Brookings Institution
Phone: 202-797-6005
Email: porszag@brookings.edu
Virginia Reno
Vice President for Income Security Policy National Academy of Social Insurance
Phone: 202-452-8097
Email: vreno@nasi.org
Bruce D. Schobel
Vice President and Actuary, New York Life Insurance Company
Phone: 212-576-6807
Email: bdschobel@aol.com
MEDICARE EXPERTS
Joseph Antos
Wilson H. Taylor Scholar in Health Care and Retirement Policy, American Enterprise Institute; Former Senior Economist, President’s Council on Economic Advisors
Phone: 202-862-5938
Email: jantos@aei.org
Nancy-Ann DeParle
Senior Advisor, JP Morgan Partners, LLC; Former Administrator, Health Care Financing Administration
Phone: 202-362-4566
Marilyn Moon
Vice President and Director, American Institutes for Research
Phone: 301-592-2101
Email: mmoon@air.org
Patricia Neuman
Vice President, Director of the Medicare Policy Project, Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation
Phone: 202-347-5270
Email: tneuman@kff.org
Robert D. Reischauer
President, The Urban Institute; Former Director, Congressional Budget Office
Phone: 202-261-5400
Email: rreischa@ui.urban.org
Gail Wilensky
Senior Fellow, Project HOPE; Former Administrator, Health Care Financing Administration
Phone: 301-656-7401
Email: gwilensky@projecthope.org
The complete Social Security Trustees report is available in pdf format at http://www.ssa.gov/OACT/TR/, and the Medicare Trustees report is available at http://www.cms.hhs.gov/.
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