An Electronic Briefing Book

Tab 2
Health Care and the U.S. Budget: Public Programs in Context

[Speaker]

Len Nichols, PhD, Director, Health Policy Program, New America Foundation
"Health Spending and the Federal Budget: Facts, Context, and Challenges" (PDF of PowerPoint Presentation)

[Briefing Materials]

• "National Health Spending in 2005: The Slowdown Continues"
  Aaron Catlin et al., Health Affairs, 26, no. 1 (January/February 2007): pp. 142-153; available at www.healthaffairs.org (subscription required)
• "National health care and Medicare spending"
  section 1 of A Data Book: Healthcare spending and the Medicare program, Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC), June 2006; available at www.medpac.gov/publications/congressional_reports/Jun06DataBookSec1.pdf
• "Health Care Spending: Context and Policy"
  Jennifer Jenson, Congressional Research Service (CRS), updated September 5, 2006; available only to congressional staff through CRS, order code RL32545, from www.crs.gov
• "The House's 'Pay-As-You-Go' (PAYGO) Rule in the 110th Congress: A Brief Overview"
  Robert Keith, CRS, January 31, 2007; available only to congressional staff through CRS, order code RL33850, from www.crs.gov
• "Low Medicaid Spending Growth Amid Rebounding State Revenues" (Executive Summary)
  Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured, October 2006; available at www.kff.org/medicaid/upload/7569-ES.pdf
  

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