How to Say No to Entitlements Event Video

With Amity Shlaes author of Coolidge and James Capretta, Director of e21's ObamaCare Watch

Moderated by Reihan Salam, Policy Advisor at e21

Social Security and Medicare are two of the biggest drivers of federal spending, and they are slated to take up a bigger proportion of total government spending as time goes by. Reforming these expensive programs with such large constituencies has proven politically difficult. As we struggle to put our fiscal house in order, it’s worth thinking back to a time when government was dramatically more limited than it is today. Join author Amity Shlaes, author of Coolidge, a new autobiography of our 30th President, and Jim Capretta, an expert on health care and entitlement policy, as they discuss how we can rein in growing entitlement programs.