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Timothy McBride

Timothy McBride

Timothy McBride is the Bernard Becker professor in the Brown School and co-director of the Center for Health Economics and Policy in the Institute for Public Health at Washington University in St. Louis. McBride studies health policy and health economics, focusing on health insurance, health reform, rural health care, Medicare and Medicaid policy, health economics, and access to health care.

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Social Security debate rages back after lying dormant for 40 years

By: - February 22, 2023

If it seems that the issue of Social Security reform roared back into our living rooms this past week after lying dormant for a long time, that perception is pretty close to reality.  The last time this country made major changes to Social Security policy was forty years ago, in 1983. Coming out of the […]