
Spending on Prescription Drugs Has Been Growing Exponentially over the Past Few Decades
The growing cost of prescription drugs presents a significant challenge to the quality and affordability of healthcare in the United States.
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The growing cost of prescription drugs presents a significant challenge to the quality and affordability of healthcare in the United States.
One issue that most lawmakers and voters agree on is that our tax system needs reform.
https://www.pgpf.org/infographic/infographic-how-the-us-tax-system-works
The latest Financial Times-Peterson Foundation US Economic Monitor, released on June 4, 2020, reveals how the coronavirus pandemic continues to have significant financial and economic impacts across wide swaths of American society.
The latest Financial Times-Peterson Foundation US Economic Monitor reveals that the coronavirus pandemic is financially impacting the vast majority of Americans, and there is broad-based support for federal response measures.
“By any measure, the state of the Union’s fiscal outlook is unsustainable, and getting worse,” said Michael A. Peterson, CEO of the Peter G. Peterson Foundation.
Every year the Social Security and Medicare Boards of Trustees issue reports on the fiscal health of these vital programs.
https://www.pgpf.org/analysis/social-security-medicare-trustees-reports
The report anticipates that in 2020 — for the first time since 1982 — the program’s total costs will exceed its total income.
Medicare faces significant financial challenges in future years because of rising healthcare spending and an aging population.
https://www.pgpf.org/analysis/2019/04/trustees-funding-challenges-threaten-medicare%E2%80%99s-future
The latest trustees reports make clear that Social Security and Medicare beneficiaries face substantial cuts in the near future unless policymakers take action to make these vital programs solvent.
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