Today, the Concord Coalition released the first issue in our new Series on Health Care and Medicare entitled: “The Nation’s Health Care Conundrum: Where Do We Go From Here?”
Today, the Concord Coalition released the first issue in our new Series on Health Care and Medicare entitled: “The Nation’s Health Care Conundrum: Where Do We Go From Here?”
This series is designed to illuminate how intertwined the health care challenge is with the nation’s long-term fiscal challenge. As Congress and the President prepare to create legislation addressing health care reform, it is essential that this linkage is recognized in any reform package. The legislation must address health care cost control and Medicare cost control in a way that can work quickly to get the nation on a more sustainable fiscal path, especially since demographic changes by themselves will severely strain entitlement programs and the broader federal budget.
The multi-issue series was written by David Koitz, a former analyst for The Congressional Research Service and the Congressional Budget Office. It will be released over the next two months and will also be accompanied on our web site by video briefs highlighting the issues discussed in the series.
Late Update: I was on C-SPAN’s Washington Journal discussing our release of the series and health care reform issues in general, to watch click here.
–Josh Gordon
