While Medicare trustees highlighted the fiscal challenges facing the program last week, the United Health Foundation issued a report that underscores the rising demands on Medicare as increasing numbers of older adults deal with obesity, diabetes and other chronic diseases.Every…
WASHINGTON -- With today’s Social Security and Medicare Trustees Report showing the growing strain the two programs will have on general revenues in the years ahead, The Concord Coalition strongly urged lawmakers to resume negotiations on a long-term fiscal sustainability…
Last Friday the Congressional Budget Office released its scoring of the President’s budget using CBO’s own baseline and economic projections.The bottom-line results confirm the overall composition of spending and revenues projected by the President’s Office of Management and Budget (OMB)…
This is post three of a three-part series on the developing consensus for the next steps on health care reform. Part One is here. Part Two is here. (more…)
