Improving Health Care
The rapid growth in health care costs is the largest and fastest growing fiscal challenge.
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The rapid growth in health care costs is the largest and fastest growing fiscal challenge.
The Peter G. Peterson Foundation issues a statement on the passage of health care reform legislation.
The poverty rate in 2009 was 14.3 percent, up from 13.2 percent in 2008. This is the highest rate since 1994.
https://www.pgpf.org/analysis/census-bureau-report-on-poverty-and-health-insurance-coverage
The reports provide both the short-and long-term financial outlooks for the trust funds.
The CBO provides two projections of the nation's fiscal future over the next 75 years: one based upon laws currently on the books; and one that reflects selected changes to those laws that lawmakers are widely expected to make.
https://www.pgpf.org/analysis/cbo-releases-the-2010-long-term-budget-outlook
In order to balance our budget and reduce the amount of debt the government takes on each year, we must match the level of government revenues with the level of spending.
https://www.pgpf.org/budget-basics/where-the-money-comes-from-revenues-taxes
Medicare’s financial problems affect the entire budget, and are largely responsible for projected increases in federal deficits.
https://www.pgpf.org/analysis/the-financial-condition-of-medicare
The Co-Chairs of the President’s National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform, Erskine Bowles and Alan Simpson, released a draft of their recommendations for deficit reduction and debt stabilization.
https://www.pgpf.org/press-release/national-commission-on-fiscal-responsibility-and-reform
According to the report, reaching primary balance would require a reduction of $255 billion in the projected deficit in 2015.
https://www.pgpf.org/analysis/cap-shows-what-it-might-take-to-balance-the-budget
America faces a growing crisis. Our federal government has accumulated a $13.6 trillion debt over the last few decades, and this debt is expected to grow significantly in coming years.