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Showing posts with label Medicare. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Medicare. Show all posts

Oct 5, 2011

United States National Debt Will Explode

Fiscal consolidation is not only needed to bring down current debt levels and the high fiscal deficit of 9 percent in the United States. Without radical reforms in Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security which will mainly cause the rise in debt, the Government Debt will actually explode to 350% in 2050.




































In fact entitlement spending will consume all tax revenues by 2049.

Heritage

Aug 18, 2011

United States 2011 Revenues and Expenditures Compared

In this post the United States Federal Budget of 2011 is depicted. On the left side you can see what the revenues consist of and on the right side this is shown for the expenditures. You can see that there is a 1.6 trillion dollars deficit in the 2011 budget.


Der Spiegel

Apr 16, 2011

Projection of United States government spending

Via Lukas Daalder Projection of different types of government spending. Notice that Medicare, Madicaid, CHIP and Exchange subsidies will rise sbustantialle from 2020 as a percentage of GDP.