Joseph White is Luxenberg Family professor of public policy at Case Western Reserve University. His early work focused on federal budgeting before adding a further focus on health policy and politics, especially cost control issues. He earned his B.A. from the University of Chicago (1976) and both his M.A. (1982) and Ph.D. (1989) from the University of California, Berkeley. After working with The Brookings Institution (1988-1997) first as a research associate and then Senior Fellow, he was an associate professor at Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine (1998-2000) and then joined Case Western (2000-present). Among his publications are The Deficit and the Public Interest (1989, 1991, with Aaron Wildavsky), Competing Solutions: American Health Care Proposals and International Experience (1995); and False Alarm: Why the Greatest Threat to Social Security and Medicare is the Campaign to ‘Save’ Them (2001, 2003).