Professor Gwen Majette (second from left) spoke at the annual conference for the National Academy of Social Insurance, an interdisciplinary meeting that was held at the National Press Club in Washington DC.  The conference coincided with the release of a 10-month study, “Examining Approaches to Expand Medicare Eligibility Key Design Options and Implications” (March 2020).

Participants included leading scholars from universities such as Yale, John Hopkins, Princeton, the University of Chicago, and George Washington; experts from think tanks (Commonwealth Fund, Kaiser Family Foundation); policy makers (former senior advisors to Senator Grassley and President Clinton, OMB staffers, and former CMS Administrator Donald Berwick); and health journalists including writer-lawyer Katie Keith who writes the Health Affairs – Following the ACA blog.

The conference recap link is here:  https://www.nasi.org/discuss/2020/03/healthcare-coverage-costs-assessing-medicare-based