Saving Medicare
About the Authors
Dr. Thomas R. Saving is the Director of the Private Enterprise Research Center at Texas A&M University. A University Distinguished Professor of Economics at Texas A&M, he also holds the Jeff Montgomery Professorship in Economics. Dr. Saving's research has covered the areas of antitrust and monetary economics, health economics, the theory of the banking firm and the general theory of the firm and markets. He has served as a referee or as a member of the editorial board of the major U.S. economics journals and is currently an editor of Economic Inquiry. Dr. Saving has authored many articles and two influential books on monetary theory. He has been President of the Western Economics Association and President of the Southern Economics Association. After receiving his Ph.D. in Economics in 1960 from the University of Chicago, Dr. Saving served on the faculty of the University of Washington and Michigan State University. He moved to Texas A&M in 1968. Dr. Saving served as chairman of the Department of Economics at Texas A&M from 1985-1991.
Andrew J. Rettenmaier is a Research Associate at the Private Enterprise Research Center at Texas A&M University. His primary areas of research are labor and public policy economics. Dr. Rettenmaier and the Center's Director, Thomas R. Saving, have presented their Medicare Reform proposal to U.S. Senate Subcommittees and to The National Bipartisan Commission on the Future of Medicare. Their proposal has also been featured in the Wall Street Journal, New England Journal of Medicine, Houston Chronicle and Dallas Morning News. Dr. Rettenmaier is the co-principal investigator on several research grants and also serves as the editor of the Center's two newsletters, PERCspectives on POLICY and PERCspectives.