Our guest this week is Mikki Waid, research director at the Neiman Health Policy Institute. She will discuss the fiscal solvency of the Social Security and Medicare trust funds and policy options Congress may need to explore.

This interview is part of the Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center series of online conversations on tax and fiscal policy in today’s economy. The discussions take place every other Thursday afternoon and feature varying perspectives on the historic economic challenges facing the United States and the world and the best ways to address them.