Giving America's leaders the tools and information they need to provide the affordable, accessible healthcare the nation needs.
Our Mission: Provide full, accurate, and easily understood analyses of the financial realities affecting the funding and security of our nation's public finance and social insurance programs. These programs include federal, state, and local retirement, healthcare, and other publicly funded social entitlements dependent on long-range planning and advance funding.
In this recent conversation with Jim Wood, strategic counsel to CAUS, Litow shares the origin story of the Concerned Actuaries, delving into the challenges facing the nation today. He emphasizes the necessity of interdisciplinary thinking and holistic solutions to tackle these complex problems, underscoring the importance of integrating principles from economics, medicine, and accounting to create sustainable and effective policies.
The impact and after effects of the pandemic and Medicare’s increasingly apparent lack of fiscal sustainability are putting both rural and urban Medicare enrollees at risk, but the situation in rural areas is deteriorating at a significantly faster pace that can legitimately be described as a crisis for rural seniors, their families and their communities.
In an effort to enhance public awareness and understanding, the Concerned Actuaries Group and the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget co-hosted a series of expert presentations and conversations on the broader and more complex spectrum of issues that must be considered in the search for an equitable, sustainable American healthcare system.