Primary Education Topic:
Policy and Advocacy
Other Education Topics:
Healthcare & Aging
Leadership in Aging
Legal & Ethical Issues
What two former Medicare administrators think it will take to get much needed services to the burgeoning Medicare populace, and why neither has a lot of hope that politics will get us there.
This roundtable offers perspectives from two former Medicare administrators, Bruce Vladeck, who is currently a senior advisor for the healthcare consulting firm Nexera, Inc., in New York City, and Gail Wilensky, who is an economist and senior fellow at Project HOPE, an international health foundation in Washington, D.C. What are their frustrations with Medicare and what are their prescriptions for improvement? Generations Guest Editors Tricia Neuman and John Rother moderated this discussion.