Entitlement spending : our coming fiscal tsunami /

David Koitz clarifies misconceptions and presents the facts on the impending fiscal crisis driven by spending on Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security. Although these programs are idolized as pillars of the nation's safety net, he shows how they are in fact the largest drivers of our looming...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Koitz, David (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Stanford, Calif. : Hoover Institution Press, Stanford University, ©2012.
Colección:Hoover Institution Press publication ; 629.
Temas:
Entitlement spending > United States.
Social security > United States.
Dépenses sociales > États-Unis.
Sécurité sociale > États-Unis.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Affairs & Administration.
MEDICAL > Health Policy.
Entitlement spending
Social security
United States
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Front cover
  • Book title
  • Contents
  • List of figures and tables
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Chapter One. Our coming tsunami
  • Chapter Two. Facing up to the elephants in the room : Medicare and Medicaid
  • Chapter Three. Cutting through the Social Security fog
  • Chapter Four. There is no time left to punt again
  • Chapter Five. "The man behind the tree is you and me"
  • Appendices
  • Appendix 1. The national debt
  • Appendix 2. The federal budget
  • Appendix 3. The potential consequences of our current fiscal path
  • Appendix 4. Perceptions, misperceptions, and myths about the problem
  • Appendix 5. Why the "Problem" is a problem
  • Appendix 6. The significance of addressing the problem sooner rather than later
  • Appendix 7. What options are there to address the problem?
  • Supplementary Material : Brief descriptions of Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, and "all- other" spending
  • About the author
  • Index.

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