Budget Basics: Medicare
Medicare is an essential health insurance program serving millions of Americans, and a major part of the federal budget and our fiscal outlook.
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Medicare is an essential health insurance program serving millions of Americans, and a major part of the federal budget and our fiscal outlook.
The January 2013 fiscal cliff involves several components of tax cuts and spending provisions.
Medicare covers over 20 percent of most healthcare services.
https://www.pgpf.org/chart-archive/0092_medicare_share_costs
Despite higher healthcare spending per capita, the U.S. generally does not have better health outcomes.
https://www.pgpf.org/chart-archive/0252_health_outcomes_spending
Peter G. Peterson delivers remarks at a celebration of Thomas Jefferson's 268th birthday.
A new poll shows that nine-in-ten Americans want policymakers to work together to avoid a shutdown and focus on implementing solutions to our growing national debt.
The Peter G. Peterson Foundation launches an original series of interactive data visualizations that are a new way to look at our national fiscal picture.
https://www.pgpf.org/press-release/press-advisory-a-new-way-to-look-at-our-national-debt
Sequestration was designed to be a blunt instrument, whose arbitrary effects would be so undesirable that they would compel policymakers to reach compromise on budget legislation rather than allow the cuts to go into effect.
Higher short- and long-term Treasury rates mean that the federal government's borrowing costs will also rise.