Restoring Fiscal Sanity 2007 The Health Spending Challenge

Foreword

Acknowledgments

Overview

1. Rising Health Care Spending--Federal and National - by Joseph R. Antos and Alice M. Rivlin

2. Strategies for Slowing the Growth of Health Spending - by Joseph R. Antos and Alice M. Rivlin

3. The Challenge of Medicare - by Gail R. Wilensky

4. The Role of Medicaid - by Alan R. Weil and Louis F. Rossiter

5. Leveraging Other Federal Health Systems - by Susan D. Hosek

6. Private Payer Roles in Moving to More Efficient Health Spending - by Paul B. Ginsburg

7. Cost Containment and the Politics of Health Care Reform - by Judith Feder and Donald W. Moran

8. Building Public Support for Slowing the Growth of Health Care Spending - by Stuart M. Butler

Contributors

Index