(This is part 2 of a 2-part course.)
America's unfunded entitlement liabilities are huge and growing. We hoped to reverse this trend in the mid-1990s. Stephen Moses illustrated the promise and possibilities in a lecture titled "Rolling Back the Welfare State" at the 1994 "Objectivism Today" conference in New York City. But our hopes were dashed. Based on his professional background in one key element of the welfare state—first as a career U.S. government employee and later as an independent activist—Moses will explain what went wrong, why we are better positioned now to confront entitlement growth, and how we can succeed this time.
Stephen Moses is president of the Center for Long-Term Care Reform in Seattle, Washington (www.centerltc.com). Previously, Mr. Moses was president of the Center for Long-Term Care Financing (1998–2005), Director of Research for LTC, Inc., (1989-98), a senior analyst for the Inspector General of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (1987-89), and a Medicaid state representative for the Health Care Financing Administration (1978-87).