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Budget crisis, entitlement crisis, health care financing problem--which is it?
- Source :
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Health affairs (Project Hope) [Health Aff (Millwood)] 2007 Nov-Dec; Vol. 26 (6), pp. 1622-33. - Publication Year :
- 2007
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Abstract
- Many budget analysts allege that growing expenditures on entitlements will necessitate a reexamination of all public spending and taxes. In fact, anticipated budget problems are fully explained by projected growth of Medicare and Medicaid. But the same forces driving public-sector health care spending are also driving private spending. Sensible reforms of publicly financed health care require a systemwide approach. Apart from health care, currently legislated federal revenues suffice to cover all currently projected spending, including all Social Security and other entitlements. The United States confronts a public and private health care spending problem, not an entitlement crisis.
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 1544-5208
- Volume :
- 26
- Issue :
- 6
- Database :
- MEDLINE
- Journal :
- Health affairs (Project Hope)
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 17978382
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1377/hlthaff.26.6.1622