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.
Under current policies, publicly held debt is projected to increase from 73 percent of gross domestic product in 2012 to 83 percent in 2023.
To help better inform the current debate over tax reform, the Tax Policy Center (with a grant from the Peterson Foundation) put real numbers behind different scenarios for tax reform that are both distributionally neutral and fiscally responsible.
Tax expenditures cost the government about $1.5 trillion each year, more than the budget of any agency or major spending program.
Topics will include fiscal policy decisions, ways to achieve long-term reform, market news, and other critical matters shaping the economic future of the country.
https://www.pgpf.org/multimedia/morning-money-breakfast-briefining-with-richard-cordray
New polling shows that voters want Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump to address the national debt in the upcoming debates.
https://www.pgpf.org/blog/2016/09/voters-national-debt-needs-to-be-part-of-the-debates
"Congress should be taking into account when designing fiscal policy is the need to achieve sustainability of this debt path over time,” Yellen said.
https://www.pgpf.org/blog/2017/07/yellen-congress-should-factor-national-debt-into-policy-decisions
An aging population and rising healthcare costs will drive sharp increases in Medicare spending, which will not keep pace with the program's funding sources.
https://www.pgpf.org/analysis/2017/07/medicare-trustees-warn-of-serious-financial-shortfalls
Sequestration is a process that cuts federal spending through across-the-board reductions.
https://www.pgpf.org/budget-basics/what-you-should-know-about-the-sequester
Peter G. Peterson releases a statement on reports of supercommittee failure to reach an agreement.