Overview : issues and options for an aging population / David I. Shactman and Stuart H. Altman -- An international perspective on policies for an aging society / Jonathan Gruber and David A. Wise -- Budget estimates : what we know, what we can't know, and why it matters / Henry J. Aaron -- Long-run budget projections and their implications for funding elderly entitlements / C. Eugene Steuerle and Paul N. Van de Water -- Increased public spending on the elderly : can we afford it? / Wendell E. Primus -- The economic consequences of funding growing elderly entitlements / Rudolph G. Penner -- The entitlement crisis that never existed / Joseph White -- The case for universal social insurance / Theodore R. Marmor and Jerry L. Mashaw -- The moral imperative of limiting elderly health entitlements / Richard D. Lamm -- The merits of changing to defined contribution programs / Mark V. Pauly -- The case for retaining defined benefit programs / Alicia H. Munnell -- Private accounts, prefunding, and equity investment under Social Security / John Geanakoplos, Olivia S. Mitchell, and Stephen P. Zeldes -- Changing retirement trends and their impact on elderly entitlement programs / Joseph F. Quinn -- Aligning incentives for a national retirement policy / Lynn Etheredge -- Enacting reform : what can we expect in the current political context? / Norman J. Ornstein -- The politics of enacting reform / Robert H. Binstock -- The financial problems of the elderly : a holistic view / Victor R. Fuchs.