Marilyn Moon is vice president and director of the Health Program at the American Institutes for Research. A nationally known expert on Medicare, she has served as a senior fellow at the Urban Institute and as a public trustee for the Social Security and Medicare trust funds. Dr. Moon has written extensively on health policy, both for the elderly and the population in general, and on social insurance issues. From 1993 to 2000, Moon also wrote a periodic column for the Washington Post on health reform and health coverage issues. She has served on a number of boards for nonprofit organizations and is currently president of the board of the Medicare Rights Center and the National Academy of Social Insurance. She is a member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences. Previously, she has been an associate professor of economics at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee, a senior analyst at the Congressional Budget Office, and the founding director of the Public Policy Institute of the American Association of Retired Persons.
Medicare: A Policy Primer, by Marilyn Moon, is available from the Urban Institute Press (paper, 6" x 9", 230 pages, ISBN 0-87766-753-5, $26.50).
