Goodman and Saving: Budget Deal’s Trillion Dollar Surprise

26 Feb 2018 | John Goodman, Media, Thomas Saving

The most significant federal entitlement reform in our lifetime was a little noticed provision that Democrats included in the Affordable Care Act. The provision was a cap on Medicare spending, similar to the cap Republicans proposed for Medicaid last summer.

Yet, in the recent bi-partisan budget agreement, Republicans in Congress agreed to completely undo the reform – recommitting the federal government to trillions of dollars of entitlement spending for which there are no dedicated future revenues. MORE

John C. Goodman is President of the Goodman Institute and Senior Fellow at The Independent Institute. His books include the soon-to-be-published updated edition of Priceless: Curing the Healthcare Crisis, the widely acclaimed A Better Choice: Healthcare Solutions for America, and New Way to Care: Social Protections that Put Families First. The Wall Street Journal and National Journal, among other media, have called him the “Father of Health Savings Accounts.”

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