Health Care

Study #315 - A Framework for Medicare Reform

The most important domestic policy problem this country faces is health care. The most important component of that problem is Medicare. Forecasts by every federal agency that produces such simulations - the Congressional Budget Office (CBO), the Social Security/Medicare Trustees, the General Accounting Office (GAO) - show that we are on a dangerous and unsustainable path. Indeed, the question is not: Will reform take place? The question is: How painful will reform have to be?

Health care is the most serious domestic policy problem we have, and Medicare is the most important component of that problem. Every federal agency taht has examined the issue has affirmed that we are on a dangerous, unsustainable spending path.