21st Century Health Care Challenges: Unsustainable Trends Necessitate Reforms

Download presentation [ PDF ] [ TXT ]

Table of contents

• Open
• Composition of Federal Spending
• Surplus or Deficit as a Share of GDP Fiscal Years 1962-2005
• Fiscal Year 2004 and 2005 Deficits and Net Operating Costs
• Estimated Fiscal Exposures (in $ trillions)
• How Big is Our Growing Fiscal Burden?
• Health Care Is the Nation's Top Tax Expenditure in Fiscal Year 2004
• 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 2006 and All Expiring Tax Provisions Are Extended
• U.S. Elderly Dependency Ratio Expected to Continue to Increase
• Growth in Spending for Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid Expected to Outpace Economic Growth
• Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid Spending as a Percent of GDP
• Current Fiscal Policy Is Unsustainable
• The Way Forward: Three Pronged Approach
• 21st Century Challenges Report
• Illustrative 21st Century Questions: Health Care
• Key Dates Highlight Long Term Challenges of the Medicare Program
• Issues to Consider in Examining Cost, Access, and Quality Challenges
• Selected Potential Health Care Reform Approaches
• Selected Potential Health Care Reform Approaches
• Key Ingredients Needed for These Challenging and Changing Times
• Close