Restoring Fiscal Sanity 2007: The Health Spending Challenge by Alice M. Rivlin, Joseph R. Antos

By Alice M. Rivlin, Joseph R. Antos

Concentrating on rules that don't shift expenditures to the states or the personal quarter, this publication indicates reforms in federal courses that experience the aptitude to minimize the expansion of spending for the full well-being approach, raise the potency and effectiveness of the care supplied, and improve health and wellbeing results.

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By Alice M. Rivlin, Joseph R. Antos

Concentrating on rules that don't shift expenditures to the states or the personal quarter, this publication indicates reforms in federal courses that experience the aptitude to minimize the expansion of spending for the full well-being approach, raise the potency and effectiveness of the care supplied, and improve health and wellbeing results.

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4. S. cms. pdf). 5. Congressional Budget Office, “The Long-Term Budget Outlook” (December 2005), Appendix: Scenario 1: Higher Spending/Lower Revenues. 6. S. Census Bureau, “Income, Poverty, and Health Insurance Coverage in the United States, 2005,” Current Population Reports (GPO, August 2006): 20–21. 7. Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, Health at a Glance: OECD Indicators 2005 (Paris, 2005). 8. Gerard F. Anderson, Bianca K. Frogner, Roger A. Johns, and Uwe E. Reinhardt, “Health Care Spending and Use of Information Technology in OECD Countries,” Health Affairs 25 (May-June 2006): 819–31.

In addition to Medicare and Medicaid, other federal health programs face spending pressures. These programs include the health programs of the Department of Defense and the Veterans Administration (VA), research programs of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and public health programs, such as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (see figure 1-4). Increasing demand for VA health care by veterans has led to cost overruns, and the rising cost of health care for the military is also a concern.

Pdf). 5. Congressional Budget Office, “The Long-Term Budget Outlook” (December 2005), Appendix: Scenario 1: Higher Spending/Lower Revenues. 6. S. Census Bureau, “Income, Poverty, and Health Insurance Coverage in the United States, 2005,” Current Population Reports (GPO, August 2006): 20–21. 7. Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, Health at a Glance: OECD Indicators 2005 (Paris, 2005). 8. Gerard F. Anderson, Bianca K. Frogner, Roger A. Johns, and Uwe E. Reinhardt, “Health Care Spending and Use of Information Technology in OECD Countries,” Health Affairs 25 (May-June 2006): 819–31.

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