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Washington Post Congressional Reporter Erica Werner led engaging conversations with policy leaders centered on the fiscal and economic effects of recent tax and spending legislation and what’s required for a fiscal reset that can put our nation on a more sustainable course.
A panel of experts discussed the potential for a well-designed carbon tax to play a role in putting our nation on a more sustainable fiscal path.
This panel convened voices from the private sector and academia to analyze the risk that high and rising debt poses to our economic future.
A mixed picture emerges from a new study commissioned by the Peter G.Peterson Foundation on America's Affordable Health Choices Act of 2009 (H.R. 3200).
https://www.pgpf.org/press-release/2009/09/health-care-bill-coverage-gain-fiscal-pain
The study examines the most recent version of Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and the House-passed Affordable Health Care for America Act, and it provides the first long-term comparative analysis of the costs of the House and Senate health care reform legislation.
The top 20 percent of income earners receive over half the value of major tax expenditures.
https://www.pgpf.org/Chart-Archive/0199_distribution_tax_expenditures
One in four medicare dollars is spent on people who are in the last year of life.
U.S. health care spending is highly focused on the costliest patients.
https://www.pgpf.org/chart-archive/0209_healthcare_spending_focused
CBO projects that federal debt will climb to 141 percent of GDP within 30 years — exceeding the highest level of debt ever recorded at the end of World War II by a large margin.
"Today’s CBO report confirms that the era of declining deficits is over," according to Michael A. Peterson, President and CEO of the Peter G. Peterson Foundation.
