Issues and Elections: Entitlement Programs

Although entitlement issues don’t rank as high these days in voters’ minds as health care, energy costs and the struggling economy, many still want to know where their candidate stands on adding private accounts to Social Security, rising Medicare premiums and the increasing amount of seniors on Medicaid. Today Issues and Elections continues with a look at the candidates for President, Senate and Congress and their platforms on entitlement issues.

Guests

• Robert L. Bixby, Executive Director of The Concord Coalition, a nonpartisan, grassroots organization dedicated to fiscal responsibility
• Dante Scala, associate professor of political science at the University of New Hampshire, author of the GraniteProf political blog and contributor to PolitickerNH.com