September 2017
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256 pages
5h 18m
English
What follows is a thoroughly bipartisan op-ed piece jointly negotiated and drafted with my friend and business community colleague James Roosevelt Jr. in 2012. At the time, Jim was the CEO of Tufts Health Plan, one of Boston’s leading healthcare providers; he had also served a term as associate commissioner for retirement policy of the Social Security Administration. He happens, incidentally, to be the grandson of Social Security’s great champion, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, whose values he shares.
It took us a fair amount of back-and-forth bargaining to agree on a set of reforms to bring Social Security to solvency for the twenty-first century. The changes we agreed on were almost exactly balanced ...
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