The passage of Medicare and Medicaid represented one of the most significant accomplishments of Lyndon Johnson’s Great Society. Together, they formed critical components of perhaps the most successful "first year” presidency in U.S. history.
In 2014, health care spending in the United States rose 5.3 percent to $3 trillion, or $9,523 per person. Controlling health care costs is important to the long-term health of the United States’ economy and its people.
Beyond addressing specific threats to national security and the promotion of broad national interests, American foreign policy defines for the world, and its own citizens, the values the United States hopes to embody as a nation.
The State Health Care Cost Containment Commission examined how the nation’s governors and other state leaders can transform the current health-care system into one that is more integrated, coordinated, patient-centered and cost-effective.
