The Concord Coalition today released the third issue in our new Series on Health Care and Medicare entitled: "Sowing Containment of Medicare Expenditures".

This series is designed to illuminate how intertwined the health care challenge is with the nation's long-term fiscal challenge. As Congress and the President prepare to create legislation addressing health care reform, it is essential that this linkage is recognized in any reform package. The legislation must address health care cost control and Medicare cost control in a way that can work quickly to get the nation on a more sustainable fiscal path, especially since demographic changes by themselves will severely strain entitlement programs and the broader federal budget.

The multi-issue series was written by David Koitz, a former analyst for The Congressional Research Service and the Congressional Budget Office. It will be released over the next two months and will also be accompanied on our web site by video briefs highlighting the issues discussed in the series.

Thanks for your continued interest in The Concord Coalition.

Issue #3: www.concordcoalition.org/issue-briefs/2009/0601/sowing-containment-medicare-expenditures