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CSHS Symposium Highlights 7/24/12
Commentators often exploit the word "sustainable" when discussing federal budget obligations and key drivers such as health care. Yet, there is little analysis and public policy presentation of what is meant by unsustainable spending -- how it is defined, attempts to quantify it, what are the implications for the federal budget, and what concrete steps are necessary to alter an otherwise bleak budget outlook. Moving toward a financially sustainable system will be a major goal for many years, regardless of the fate of the Affordable Care Act. This half-day symposium explicitly connects the US budget situation to health care cost control. The resultant framework keeps policy makers honest by characterizing how, under nearly full insurance coverage and long-run deficit control, the budget directly links to tax revenues, spending on non-health programs, government health care spending, the total growth rate of national health expenditures, and the percent of gross domestic product devoted to health spending. Many conferences tackle our budgetary woes. Many take on high and growing health care liabilities. Some do both. This symposium is unique because it explicitly connects our unsustainable fiscal path with health care as the key driver, being careful and honest in the way that terms are defined and trade-offs are identified. Speaker roster was: Ceci Connolly, Alice Rivlin, Joseph Antos, Len Nichols, Arnold Milstein, Ziad Haydar, Charlie Roehrig, Donald Marron, Joanne Kenen ...From:AltarumInstituteViews:0 0ratingsTime:10:30More inNonprofits Activism

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