21st Century:

Addressing Long-Term Fiscal Challenges Must Include a Re-examination of Mandatory Spending

Published: Feb 15, 2006. Publicly Released: Feb 15, 2006.

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This is a Comptroller General presentation delivered to the Budget Committee, House of Representatives, on February 15, 2006. Major topics include: social security, medicare, and medicaid spending, health care as the nation's largest tax expenditure, and selected health care spending reforms.