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AREAS OF EXPERTISE
Medicare, long-term services and supports, health care financing and policy.
ABOUT
Harriet Komisar, PhD, is a senior policy advisor on the health security team in AARP’s Public Policy Institute, where she focuses on Medicare and other health care policy topics.
Before joining AARP in 2013, Komisar was a research professor in Georgetown University’s Health Policy Institute and the Georgetown Public Policy Institute (now the McCourt School of Public Policy). At the time, she had recently completed a year as a visiting policy analyst in the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Policy and Evaluation at the US Department of Health and Human Services.
Before joining Georgetown University in 1996, Komisar was a principal analyst at the Congressional Budget Office, where she worked on topics related to Medicare and other areas of federal health care policy.
She received a PhD in economics from Cornell University and a bachelor of arts from Yale University.
Read Harriet Komisar's blog posts.
CONTACTS
Email: hkomisar@aarp.org
For media inquiries, call 202-434-2560 or e-mail media@aarp.org.
Recent Publications
Putting People First by Strengthening Medicare for the Future
Date: October 20, 2020
Higher Income Individuals Pay More for Medicare
Date: November 9, 2017
Premium Support Is the Wrong Direction for Medicare: Highlights from a New Research Report
Date: October 26, 2017
Facts About Long-Term Services and Supports
Date: March 1, 2017