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  • Title: Budget crisis, entitlement crisis, health care financing problem--which is it?
    Author: Aaron HJ.
    Journal: Health Aff (Millwood); 2007; 26(6):1622-33. PubMed ID: 17978382.
    Abstract:
    Many budget analysts allege that growing expenditures on entitlements will necessitate a reexamination of all public spending and taxes. In fact, anticipated budget problems are fully explained by projected growth of Medicare and Medicaid. But the same forces driving public-sector health care spending are also driving private spending. Sensible reforms of publicly financed health care require a systemwide approach. Apart from health care, currently legislated federal revenues suffice to cover all currently projected spending, including all Social Security and other entitlements. The United States confronts a public and private health care spending problem, not an entitlement crisis.
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