Medicare, Medicaid, & Social Security | Experts

Charles Blahous

  • Senior Research Fellow
  • Public Trustee for Social Security and Medicare
Charles Blahous is a senior research fellow at the Mercatus Center and public trustee for Medicare and Social Security. His primary research interests include retirement security, with an emphasis on Social Security and employer-provided defined benefit pensions, as well as…

Veronique de Rugy

  • Senior Research Fellow
Veronique de Rugy is a senior research fellow at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University. Her primary research interests include the federal budget, homeland security, taxation, tax competition, and financial privacy issues.

Jason J. Fichtner

  • Senior Research Fellow
Jason J. Fichtner is a senior research fellow at the Mercatus Center. His primary research interests include Social Security, federal tax policy, federal budget policy, retirement security, and policy proposals to increase saving and investment.

Matthew Mitchell

  • Senior Research Fellow
  • Adjunct Professor of Economics, George Mason University
Matthew Mitchell is a senior research fellow at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University and the lead scholar on the Project for the Study of American Capitalism. His primary research interests include economic freedom and economic growth, public choice…

David M. Primo

  • Associate Profes