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.
In 2008, Emory University received funding from the Foundation to create and support the work of the Center for Entitlement Reform.
https://www.pgpf.org/what-we-are-doing/grants/improving-health-care-value
A study commissioned by the Peter G. Peterson Foundation on S. 1796, America's Healthy Future Act of 2009 confirms the Congressional Budget Office analysis that the bill, as passed by the Senate Finance Committee, could result in slightly lower deficits if it is implemented as intended and remains unchanged.
https://www.pgpf.org/press-release/peter-g-peterson-foundation-releases-new-health-care-reform-study
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
Improving our healthcare system to deliver better quality care at lower cost is critically important to our nation’s long-term economic and fiscal well-being.
https://www.pgpf.org/infographic/infographic-us-healthcare-spending
Medicaid finances almost one-fifth of healthcare spending in the United States.
https://www.pgpf.org/chart-archive/0095_medicaid_home_health
The largest emergency response bill in history, the CARES Act allocates $2 trillion in emergency funding to provide relief to households, small and large businesses, states and municipalities, and healthcare providers, among others.
https://www.pgpf.org/infographic/whats-in-the-cares-act-heres-a-summary
Medicare and Medicaid account for the majority of federal healthcare spending
https://www.pgpf.org/chart-archive/0169_federal_health_spending_composition
Between 2006 and 2051, spending on federal health programs is projected to more than double.
https://www.pgpf.org/chart-archive/0114_federal_health_spending