Vital Reform

Finding savings in the current health care system is not about paying for reform in the short-term. It’s about controlling unsustainable health care costs in the long run or “bending the curve” on healthcare spending. We cannot keep adding patients to a broken system. Without controlling health care costs, families will continue to be burdened with higher premiums, businesses will be forced to drop coverage or lay off workers, and our national and state budgets will be fiscally unsustainable.
The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) estimates that the Medicare reforms in this bill will save more than $500 billion over the next ten years. In addition, many of the reforms to the health care system are designed to create long-term savings like preventive care and research, but will not be counted by CBO. All of these reforms are critical to the long-term sustainability of our health care system.
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