Timothy McBride is the Bernard Becker Professor and Co-Director of the Center for Health Economics and Policy at Washington University in St. Louis, and is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin, where he earned his PhD in 1989.
Social Security and Medicare policy have become important issues in the Wisconsin Senate campaign, due to controversial comments made by Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Oshkosh). Johnson has said that he favors changing those programs from mandatory programs, not subject to annual review, to discretionary programs needing review annually in the budget process. Critics suggest that this […]
