21st Century Health Care Challenges: Unsustainable Trends Necessitate Reforms to Control Spending and Improve Value

This is a Comptroller General presentation given to the Citizens' Health Care Working Group in Salt Lake City, Utah, on July 22, 2005. Major topics of this presentation include: composition of federal spending, key elements for economic security in retirement, health care as the nation's top tax expenditures in fiscal year 2004, implications for rising health care costs, and health care system challenges.