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Saving Our Future Requires Tough Choices Today: Fiscal, Retirement, and Health Care Insecurity

GAO-07-843CG Published: May 02, 2007. Publicly Released: May 02, 2007.
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This is a Comptroller General Presentation delivered to the Association for Advanced Life Underwriting (AALU) on May 2, 2007. Major topics of this presentation include: our growing fiscal burden, a three-pronged approach to the way forward, why older Americans don't work longer, social security reform, and health care reform.

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Auditing and Financial Management
Budget deficitDeficit financingDeficit reductionFederal social security programsFiscal policiesHealth care cost controlHealth care costsHealth care planningHealth care reformIntergovernmental fiscal relationsLabor forceLocal governmentsPension claimsPerformance measuresRetirement ageSocial security beneficiariesSpending legislationState governments