21st Century Health Care Challenges: Unsustainable Trends Necessitate Reform
Published: Feb 16, 2006. Publicly Released: Feb 16, 2006.
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This is a Comptroller General presentation delivered to the Medical Technology Leadership Forum on February 16, 2006. Major topics of this presentation include: the growing fiscal burden, health care spending, long-term challenges to the Medicare program, and potential health care reform approaches.
21st Century Health Care Challenges: Unsustainable Trends Necessitate Reforms
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- 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
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