Event Recap: Will Health Reform Heal the Federal Budget?

On November 6th CRFB and The Pew Charitable Trusts hosted a discussion on whether health care reform can heal the federal budget. Among a panel of leading health care financing experts, there was overall broad agreement that the health reform legislation will be passed – and many of the panelists believed it would make many positive inroads on cost control. But there was also concern that it would not do nearly enough toward addressing the long-term pressures health care poses for the federal budget.

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