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RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY

Save to My PortfolioBudget Chaos: What, Me Worry?

Bill Frenzel and Ron Haskins, April 07, 2008, The Washington Times

Budget Chaos: What, Me Worry?As the baby boomers begin to retire this year, the burden of Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid will grow relentlessly. With more people in the programs and more expensive benefits, the nation will quickly encounter a budget disaster. Bill Frenzel and Ron Haskins say that dramatic reforms are needed to avoid budget chaos for future generations. Read More

Fiscal Policy, Medicaid, Medicare, Social Security, Budget Deficit

RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY

Save to My PortfolioTaking Back our Fiscal Future

April 2008, The Brookings Institution and the Heritage Foundation

Unsustainable deficits in the federal budget threaten the health and vigor of the American economy. When the next president and Congress take office in January 2009, they will face one crucial question that has been almost absent from the current election campaign: how to close the enormous gap between projected federal spending and revenues. Read More

Fiscal Policy, Social Security, Medicaid, Medicare, Federal Budget

PAST EVENT

Save to My PortfolioTaking Back Our Fiscal Future

Monday, March 31, 2008
Washington, DC

Reuters/Peter MorganSome of the nation’s top economists and budget policy experts presented a new paper arguing that the first step toward establishing budget responsibility is to reform the budget decision process so that Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid—the major drivers of escalating deficits—are no longer on auto-pilot. Read More

Fiscal Policy, Social Security, Medicaid, Medicare, Budget Deficit

PAST EVENT

Save to My PortfolioOur Looming Medical Cost Catastrophe: What’s to be Done?

Friday, March 07, 2008
Washington, DC

Panelists at this conference, co-sponsored by Brookings and the O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law at Georgetown University, considered why past efforts to contain health costs have failed and how America might achieve cost-sensitive health care reform in the future. Former Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle and Congressional Budget Office Director Peter Orszag offered remarks. Read More

Health Care, Medicaid, Medicare, Federal Budget

VIDEO

Save to My PortfolioHealth Care Challenges for Our Next President

Henry J. Aaron and Martha Raddatz, March 06, 2008

Senior Fellow Henry Aaron explains to ABC’s Martha Raddatz that our next president will confront major health policy decisions with far-reaching effects on the life of virtually every American.

Health Care, Medicaid, Medicare

RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY

Save to My PortfolioBudget Crisis, Entitlement Crisis, Health Care Financing Problem—Which Is It?

Henry J. Aaron, Fall 2007, Health Affairs

Henry Aaron raises questions about the health-care budget and finding solutions to this long term problem. Read More

Health Care, Medicare, Medicaid, Retirement, Social Security

RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY

Save to My PortfolioSlowing the Growth of Health Spending: We Need Mixed Strategies, and We Need to Start Now

Joseph R. Antos and Alice M. Rivlin, August 15, 2007, Opportunity 08

Slowing the Growth of Health Spending: We Need Mixed Strategies, and We Need to Start NowAmericans are deeply concerned about paying their mounting bills for health care. This is true whether they have public (Medicare or Medicaid) or private insurance. And it’s certainly true for the 46 million people with no insurance at all. At the same time, the federal government’s health spending is clearly unsustainable. If current commitments are kept, other government services will have to be slashed or taxes increased drastically just to pay for Medicare and Medicaid. Read More

Health Care, Medicaid, Medicare, Federal Budget

RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY

Save to My PortfolioSubsidized Contraception, Fertility, and Sexual Behavior

Melissa S. Kearney and Phillip B. Levine, April 2007, NBER Working Paper No. 13045

Melissa S. Kearney and Phillip B. Levine examine the impact of state-level Medicaid policy changes that expanded eligibility for family planning services to higher income women and to Medicaid clients whose benefits would expire otherwise. Read More

Medicaid, Children & Families, Marriage and Family Formation

RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY

Save to My PortfolioFinancing Health Care with Limited Resources

Henry J. Aaron, October 07, 2004, Conference on Health Care Challenges Facing the Nation

Speech by Henry J. Aaron, Conference on Health Care Challenges Facing the Nation (10/7/04) Read More

Health Care, Medicaid, Medicare, Aging, U.S. Economy

PAST EVENT

Save to My PortfolioLiving Longer: The Challenges of an Aging Population

Thursday, May 25, 2000
Washington, D.C.

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Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, Retirement, Aging

In Brief

America’s state-administered Medicaid program provides health insurance to more than 53 million poor parents, children and senior citizens. But the program leaves many low-income people without coverage and its rising costs pose a serious threat to state and federal budgets. Are there reforms that can help achieve a better health care system?

Featured Experts

Mark B. McClellan

Mark B. McClellan

Director, Engelberg Center for Health Care Reform
Leonard D. Schaeffer Director's Chair in Health Policy

A medical doctor and economist, Mark McClellan works on promoting high-quality, innovative and affordable health care. Once commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration and administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, Dr. McClellan now directs the Engelberg Center for Health Care Reform.
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Henry J. Aaron

Henry J. Aaron

Senior Fellow, Economic Studies
The Bruce and Virginia MacLaury Chair

A noted health care expert, Henry Aaron focuses on the reform of health care financing; public systems such as Medicare and Medicaid; Social Security; and tax and budget policy.
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