A Look at Your Future: When Baby Boomers Retire
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Table of contents
- Opening
- GAO's Strategic Plan
- Composition of Federal Spending
- Federal Spending for Mandatory and Discretionary Programs
- Fiscal Year 2004 Deficit Numbers
- Surplus or Deficit as a Share of GDP Fiscal Years 1962-2004
- Estimated Fiscal Exposures (in $ trillions)
- Growing Fiscal Burden
- Fiscal Exposures: The Importance of Looking Beyond the 1st Year
- Health Care Is the Nation's Top Tax Expenditure in Fiscal Year 2004 (estimated)
- 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
- The Way Forward
- 21st Century Challenges Report
- Generic Reexamination Criteria and Sample Questions
- Illustrative 21st Century Questions
- Key Elements for Economic Security in Retirement
- Social Security and Medicare's Hospital Insurance Trust Funds Face Cash Deficits
- Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid Spending as a Percent of GDP
- U.S. Elderly Dependency Ratio Expected to Continue to Increase
- U.S. Labor Force Growth Will Continue to Decline
- Key Dates Highlight Long Term Challenges of the Social Security System
- Different Measures, Same Challenge
- GAO Criteria for Evaluating Social Security Reform Proposals
- Social Security: The Bottom Line Illustrative Questions and Answers Based on the Latest Trustees' Reports
- Questions and Answers
- Questions and Answers
- Questions and Answers
- Questions and Answers
- Challenges Facing the Defined Benefit (DB) Pension System
- Broad Goals for Reform of the DB System
- Several Reforms Might Improve Plan Funding and Reduce the Risks to PBGC's Long-term Viability
- Key Dates Highlight Long Term Challenges of the Medicare Program
- SMI Premium as Share of Average Social Security (OASI) Benefit
- Quality and Availability of Affordable Health Care Has Broad Implications for Retirees
- Issues to Consider in Examining Cost, Access, and Quality Challenges
- Selected Potential Health Care Reform Approaches
- Selected Potential Health Care Reform Approaches
- Three Key Ingredients Needed for These Challenging and Changing Times
- Close