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Health Care Budget Deficit Calculator

How Global Trade Can Rein in Health Costs

Dean Baker and Jagdish Bhagwati
CNN Money, September 16, 2011

Representative Ryan’s $30 Trillion Medicare Waste Tax
April 2011, David Rosnick and Dean Baker

The Ryan Medicare Plan: Winners and Losers
April 2011, Dean Baker and David Rosnick

Reports

State Savings with an Efficient Medicare Prescription Drug Benefit

March 2013, Dean Baker and Nicole Woo

Reducing Waste With an Efficient Medicare Prescription Drug Benefit

February 2013, Dean Baker

Debt, Deficits, and Demographics: Why We Can Afford the Social Contract

November 2012, Dean Baker

Affording Health Care and Education on the Minimum Wage

March 2012, John Schmitt and Marie-Eve Augier

Health-insurance Coverage for Low-wage Workers, 1979-2010 and Beyond

February 2012, John Schmitt

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Op-Eds & Columns

Economists and Future Living Standards

Dean Baker
Al Jazeera English, March 18, 2013

Fix the Debt's Fuzzy Math

Dean Baker
The Nation, February 20, 2013

We Need Job Creation, Not Talk of Debt-to-GDP Ratios

Dean Baker
Debate Club (U.S. News & World Report), February 20, 2013

Obamacare Insurance Exchanges Will Help -- Especially in Vermont, Where They Are a Step to Single Payer Insurance for All

Mark Weisbrot
Sacramento Bee (CA), February 7, 2013
McClatchy Tribune Information Services, February 7, 2013
Anchorage Daily News (AK), February 7, 2013
Bradenton Herald (FL), February 7, 2013
Bellingham Herald (WA), February 7, 2013
Centre Daily Times (PA), February 7, 2013
Belleville News-Democrat (IL), February 7, 2013
Modesto Bee (CA), February 7, 2013
Macon Telegraph (GA), February 7, 2013
Boise Idaho Statesman (ID), February 7, 2013
Olympia Olympian (WA), February 7, 2013
Biloxi Sun-Herald (MS), February 7, 2013
Columbus Ledger-Enquirer (GA), February 7, 2013
San Luis Obispo Tribune (CA), February 7, 2013
Rock Hill Herald (SC), February 7, 2013
Kennewick Tri-City Herald (WA), February 7, 2013
Raleigh News and Observer (NC), February 7, 2013
Lexington Herald-Leader (KY), February 7, 2013
Kansas City Star (KS), February 7, 2013
Tallahassee Democrat (FL), February 8, 2013
Burlington Hawkeye (IA), February 9, 2013
Wapakoneta Daily News (OH), February 9, 2013
New Bedford Standard Times (MA), February 9, 2013
Big Rapids Pioneer (MI), February 9, 2013
Marshfield News-Herald (WI), February 9, 2013
Wisconsin Rapids Tribune (WI), February 9, 2013
Stevens Point Journal (WI), February 9, 2013
Times of India, February 9, 2013
Arizona Sun (AZ), February 10, 2013
Sturgeon Bay Door County Advocate (WI), February 10, 2013
Fond du Lac Reporter (WI), February 10, 2013
Wisconsin Rapids Tribune (WI), February 10, 2013
Wassau Daily Herald (WI), February 10, 2013
Sheboygan Press (WI), February 10, 2013
Oshkosh Northwestern (WI), February 10, 2013
Appleton Post-Crescent (WI), February 10, 2013
Green Bay Press-Gazette (WI), February 10, 2013
Willimantic Chronicle (CT), February 10, 2013
Lawton Constitution (OK), February 10, 2013
Kokomo Tribune (IN), February 10, 2013
Gainesville Times (GA), February 10, 2013
Salt Lake City Deseret News (UT), February 10, 2013

Free Trade in Medicare: An Alternative to Austerity

Dean Baker
The Guardian Unlimited, December 21, 2012

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Events

Threats to Medicare: The Election and the Lame Duck Congress

The Future of Medicare

The Future of Entitlement Programs

In Defense of the Social Safety Net

Crossing the American Crises: From Collapse to Action

Crisis in the States and Cities: What Should Be Done?

Why Do We Care About Rising Health Care Costs?

Redesigning Incentives for the Pharmaceutical Industry

Health Care Reform and International Trade: Lost Opportunity?

Protecting America from Infectious Disease

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Press Releases

States Could Save $73 Billion by Negotiating Medicare Drug Prices

March 19, 2013

Armed With Powerful New Data, Progressive Groups Launch Grassroots Campaign to Enable Medicare Drug-Price Negotiations

February 14, 2013

New Calculator Shows Long-Run Deficit is Entirely Due to Health Care Costs
April 5, 2012

Statement on Latest CBO Projections
June 22, 2011

Ryan Proposal Will Lead to Large Rise in Health Care Costs for Seniors
April 6, 2011

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Testimony

No Need to Talk About Taking an Ax to Safety Net for the Poor
December 16, 2010, Dean Baker's Comments at Brookings Institution Forum

Other Resources

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Neoliberalism, Globalization and Inequalities:
Consequences for Health and Quality of Life

with a chapter by Mark Weisbrot, Dean Baker and David Rosnick
Baywood Publishing Co. (2007)

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Inequality Matters:
The Growing Economic Divide in America and Its Poisonous Consequences

with chapter co-authored by Heather Boushey
(2006)

Social Security

Social Social: The Phony Crisis
by Dean Baker and Mark Weisbrot
(2001)

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