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The Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction—the “super committee”—created under the Budget Control Act of 2011 is tasked with proposing a strategy for reducing the federal deficit by $1.5 trillion over the next decade. If the committee fails, an automatic cut of 2 percent is authorized for Medicare, other domestic programs, and national security and defense budgets. In carrying out its mission, the super committee should focus on the main drivers of long-term runaway spending: health care entitlement programs. All Members of Congress should also bear in mind the importance of not e...

President-elect Obama's rationale for a new public health plan isthat it would give Americans who are not enrolled inemployment-based health insurance coverage, or those with insecurecoverage, the opportunity to obtain stable, affordable healthinsurance with a guaranteed set of government-standardizedbenefits. But while this might look like a prescription forconsumer choice and competition, the reality is very different.

Executive Summary: President Bush's health care agenda wouldincrease public and private coverage for millions of Americans. Theoutlined health policy agenda introduces key changes in theconventional financing and delivery of health care. Chief among theproposals are health care tax credits for lower-income individualsand families and new market-based insurance reforms to enableAmericans to purchase private health coverage.

Today, nearly 44 million people will go without health insurance atsome point during the year; this number continues to grow at theastonishing rate of 100,000 each month.

The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act is one of the largest and most complicated overhauls ever enacted. Policy experts continue to debate the impact it will have.