| A First Big Step Toward Medicare Sustainability
Foster, J.D.
The Heritage Foundation, Backgrounder #2253, March 24, 2009, online edition
"Medicare is the third largest program in the federal government after defense spending and Social Security. It will soon become the largest program, absorbing an ever-increasing share of the budget and national income. While the basic facts about Medicare are not new, what is new and encouraging is the growing recognition that Medicare is unaffordable in its current form and must be fundamentally reformed."
J.D. Foster is the Norman B. Ture Senior Fellow in the Economics of Fiscal Policy at The Heritage Foundation's Thomas A. Roe Institute for Economic Policy Studies.
Go to the backgrounder at:
http://www.heritage.org/research/healthcare/bg2253.cfm
C20/02-09. Posted April 8, 2009
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