Dr. Paul Van de Water Discusses Recommendations to Stabilize the Federal Debt, Including Recommendations for Reforms to Medicare and Social Security (January 17, 2013)
Dr. Paul Van de Water Discusses Recommendations to Stabilize the Federal Debt, Including Recommendations for Reforms to Medicare and Social Security (January 17, 2013)
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Listen Now In this 34 minute podcast Dr. Paul Van de Water explains the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities' recent call for an additional $1.5 trillion in budgetary savings to stabilize the federal debt at 73% of the GDP. He discusses the revenue option of limiting individual tax deductions. On the spending side, savings from Medicare drug pricing and greater beneficiary means testing are discussed and more generally whether Medicare cost growth, comparatively modest over the past three years, will pesist as the national economy recovers. Dr. Van de Water explanis the merits of applying chained CPI (Consumer Price Index) to index Social Security benefits (to generate additional federal savings) and raising Social Security taxes without limit on annual earnings (currently annual income is taxed up to $113k). Finally, Dr. Van de Water discusses the problem/s with applying "dynamic scoring" to Congressional Budget Office scoring.
Dr. Paul Van de Water Discusses Recommendations to Stabilize the Federal Debt, Including Recommendations for Reforms to Medicare and Social Security (January 17, 2013)
Dr. Paul Van de Water Discusses…
Dr. Paul Van de Water Discusses Recommendations to Stabilize the Federal Debt, Including Recommendations for Reforms to Medicare and Social Security (January 17, 2013)
Listen Now In this 34 minute podcast Dr. Paul Van de Water explains the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities' recent call for an additional $1.5 trillion in budgetary savings to stabilize the federal debt at 73% of the GDP. He discusses the revenue option of limiting individual tax deductions. On the spending side, savings from Medicare drug pricing and greater beneficiary means testing are discussed and more generally whether Medicare cost growth, comparatively modest over the past three years, will pesist as the national economy recovers. Dr. Van de Water explanis the merits of applying chained CPI (Consumer Price Index) to index Social Security benefits (to generate additional federal savings) and raising Social Security taxes without limit on annual earnings (currently annual income is taxed up to $113k). Finally, Dr. Van de Water discusses the problem/s with applying "dynamic scoring" to Congressional Budget Office scoring.