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Session 22: Entitlements Reform
The panelists will address the question, “How do you build or reform a retirement system with a growing, aging population?”
Presentations
Thomas Saving, Social Security Reform: Securing The Rights to Your Pension Benefits (PDF, 117 K)
John Rother, Entitlements and the Future (PDF, 340 K)
Links of Interest
Private Enterprise Research Center
Speakers
Thomas R. Saving
Trustee
Social Security and Medicare Trust Funds
Thomas R. Saving is the Director of the Private Enterprise Research Center at Texas A&M University. A University Distinguished Professor of Economics at Texas A&M, he also holds the Jeff Montgomery Professorship in Economics. Dr. Saving received his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago and served on the faculty at the University of Washington, Seattle and Michigan State University before moving to Texas A&M University in 1968. Dr. Saving’s research has covered the areas of antitrust economics, monetary economics, health economics, the theory of the banking firm, and the general theory of the firm and markets. He has served as a referee or as a member of the editorial board of the major United States economics journals and is currently co-editor of Economic Inquiry. His current research emphasis is on the benefit of markets in solving the pressing issues in health care and Social Security. He is the co-editor of Medicare Reform: Issues and Answers, University of Chicago Press, 1999 and the co-author of The Economics of Medicare Reform, W. E. Upjohn Institute, 2000, in addition to many articles in professional journals and two influential books on monetary theory. Dr. Saving has been elected to the post of President of the Western Economics Association and President of the Southern Economics Association and President of the Association of Private Enterprise Education. In 2000 Dr. Saving was appointed by the President to the Board of Trustees of the Social Security and Medicare Trust Funds. On May 2, 2001 Dr. Saving was named to the President’s Social Security Commission.
John C. Rother
Group Executive Officer of Policy and Strategy
AARP
John Rother is the Group Executive Officer of Policy and Strategy for AARP. He is responsible for the federal and state public policies of the Association, for international initiatives, and for formulating AARP's overall strategic direction. He is an authority on Medicare, managed care, long-term care, Social Security, pensions and the challenges facing the boomer generation.
Prior to coming to AARP in 1984, Mr. Rother served eight years with the U.S. Senate as Special Counsel for Labor and Health to former Senator Jacob Javits (R-NY), then as Staff Director and Chief Counsel for the Special Committee on Aging under its Chairman, Senator John Heinz (R-PA).
He serves on several Boards and Commissions, including Generations United, the National Health Care Quality Forum, the American Board of Internal Medicine Foundation, National Academy on Aging, and Civic Ventures.
He is a frequently quoted in the news, and regularly presents at conferences and congressional briefings. Throughout 1996, Mr. Rother was on special sabbatical assignment to study the consumer implications of the managed care revolution and the economic challenges facing the boomer generation.
John Rother is an honors graduate of Oberlin College and the University of Pennsylvania Law School.
