Analyses
Report on Age
The national health care debate—traditionally focused on an adequate health care safety net for those with high medical needs or low resources, the elderly, sick, disabled, and poor—is turning to healthy and able young adults in the campaign to bring health insurance to every American.
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Annual Report 2014
While health care cost growth has slowed in the years following the recession, the United States spent roughly 16.4 percent of national gross domestic product (GDP) on health care in 2011, and the Congressional Budget Office has estimated that federal health care spending will increase to 8 percent of federal revenue by 2038.