February 17, 2005

Speaker Biographies

Joseph R. Antos is the Wilson H. Taylor Scholar in Health Care and Retirement Policy at AEI and an adjunct professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Public Health. He was the assistant director for health and human resources, the division providing Congress with analyses of proposed changes to federal programs and policies in areas such as health, income security, education, employment, and housing at the Congressional Budget Office. Mr. Antos was the director of the Office of Research and Demonstrations and deputy director of the Office of the Actuary at the Health Care Financing Administration. He was the deputy chief of staff and the principal deputy assistant secretary for management and budget at the Department of Health and Human Services.

Jeffrey Brown is an assistant professor in the Department of Finance at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, a faculty research fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research, and associate director of the NBER Retirement Research Center. Prior to joining the Illinois faculty, Mr. Brown was an assistant professor at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government. During 2001-2002, he served as senior economist at the White House Council of Economic Advisers and as a staff member for the President's Commission to Strengthen Social Security. In January 2005, he was nominated by President Bush to serve on the Social Security Advisory Board. Professor Brown has published extensively on public and private insurance markets, including publications in the Journal of Political Economy, the American Economic Review, the Journal of Public Economics, and numerous books. Professor Brown is coauthor of the book The Role of Annuities in Financing Retirement (MIT Press, 2001) and is co-founder and co-editor of the Journal of Pension Economics and Finance, published by Cambridge University Press.

Robert B. Friedland is the director of the Center on an Aging Society at Georgetown University and an associate professor of health systems administration in the School of Nursing and Health Studies at Georgetown University. The Center is a non-partisan public policy institute that examines the issues that affect younger and older families and, in particular, the impact of changing demographics on employment, income, health, and long-term care. Mr. Friedland has written on issues pertaining to the financing and delivery of health care and long-term care and retirement income security. His book Facing the Costs of Long-Term Care was awarded the 1992 Elizur Wright Award by the American Risk and Insurance Association. Mr. Friedland has had a wide range of research and public policy experience, including as chief economist for Maryland's Medicaid program, senior research associate at the Employee Benefit Research Institute, director of AARP's Public Policy Institute, research director of the National Academy of Social Insurance, and economist on the staff of the U.S. Bipartisan Commission on Comprehensive Health Care, better known as the Pepper Commission. He is also is on the board of the National Academy for State Health Policy, the Long-Term Care Insurance Education Foundation, and the Editorial Board of Aging Today.

Stuart Hagen joined the Congressional Budget Office in 1998 as a principal analyst. He focuses on a variety of policy issues related primarily to the private health care market, including financing long-term care for the elderly, insurance market regulation, protecting the confidentiality of personal health information, reforming medical malpractice laws, and increasing the number of people with health insurance. His CBO publications include Projections of Expenditures for Long-Term Care for the Elderly, Issues and Policy Options for Financing Long-Term Care for the Elderly, Limiting Tort Liability for Medical Malpractice, and Increasing Small-Firm Health Insurance Coverage Through Association Health Plans and HealthMarts. Prior to joining CBO, he worked for several years for FHP Health Care (now part of PacifiCare Health Systems), one of the nation's largest Medicare risk contractors, where he served as director of health plans.

Mark R. Meiners is professor and director of the Center for Health Policy, Research and Ethics, at George Mason University. Prior to joining GMU in October 2004, he was associate professor/director of the University of Maryland Center on Aging for seventeen years. He is also the national program director of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) Medicare/Medicaid Integration Program, an initiative designed to help states develop new systems of care that better coordinate acute and long-term care. In addition, he has led the Partnership for Long-Term Care, an innovative state-based long-term care insurance program, since its beginning in 1987. Mr. Meiners specializes in the areas of aging and health with emphasis on financing and reimbursement issues. His path-breaking research on long-term care insurance has been a major catalyst to the current interest in this topic and his work on Medicare/Medicaid integration has helped advance chronic care improvement strategies for all aged and disabled populations.

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