21ST Century Health Care Challenges: Unsustainable Trends Necessitate Reforms to Control Spending and Improve Value

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• 21ST Century Health Care Challenges: Unsustainable Trends Necessitate Reforms to Control Spending and Improve Value
• Presentation Overview
• Composition of Federal Spending
• Estimated Fiscal Exposures (in $ trillions)
• Another Way to Think About These Numbers
• Composition of Spending as a Share of GDP Under Baseline Extended
• Composition of Spending as a Share of GDP Assuming Discretionary Spending Grows with GDP after 2005 and All Expiring Tax Provisions are Extended
• Current Fiscal Policy Is Unsustainable
• Key Elements for Economic Security in Retirement
• Health Expenditures Will Continue to Absorb an Increasing Share of GDP
• The United States Exceeds Other Industrialized Nations in Total Health Spending as a Percentage of GDP
• Medicare and Medicaid Spending as a Percentage of GDP
• Health Care Is the Nation's Top Tax Expenditure in Fiscal Year 2004 (estimated)
• Rising Health Care Costs Have Many Implications
• Rising Health Care Costs Have Many Implications
• Health Care System Challenges
• Health Care System Challenges
• Issues to Consider in Examining Cost, Access, and Quality Challenges
• Issues to Consider in Examining Cost, Access, and Quality Challenges
• Issues to Consider in Examining Cost, Access, and Quality Challenges
• Issues to Consider in Examining Cost, Access, and Quality Challenges
• Issues to Consider in Examining Cost, Access, and Quality Challenges
• Issues to Consider in Examining Cost, Access, and Quality Challenges
• Conclusion
• Close