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 chairman's budget proposes a distinct change in the future role of government.
https://www.pgpf.org/analysis/analysis-of-chairman-ryan%E2%80%99s-2013-budget-proposal
The United States spends more on defense than the next 9 countries combined.
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 paper puts real numbers behind different scenarios for a structure for tax reform: eliminating income tax expenditures to enable lower tax rates.
The report projects that in 2018 — for the first time since 1982 — the program’s total costs will exceed its total income.
If lawmakers do not agree on raising or suspending the debt limit before the extraordinary measures are exhausted, there would be severe consequences.
https://www.pgpf.org/analysis/2023/06/debt-ceiling-update-whats-at-stake
Following the 2017 tax reform, the federal statutory corporate tax rate in the United States is now more in line with many other OECD countries.
https://www.pgpf.org/chart-archive/0273_statutory_corporate_income_tax_rates
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 Congressional Budget Office's latest Budget and Economic Outlook provides sobering new evidence that our nation's fiscal policies are on an unsustainable and uncertain path.
https://www.pgpf.org/analysis/analysis-of-cbo%E2%80%99s-budget-outlook-fiscal-years-2012-2022