Health Care System Crisis: Growing Challenges Point to Need for Fundamental Reform

April 2004 Health Care System Crisis: Growing Challenges Point to Need for Fundamental Reform In preparing for our fiscal future, policymakers will want to consider the dramatic change in composition of spending that has occurred over the last several decades and the expected challenges shown in GAOs budget simulations. With respect to health care, both the private and public sectors are losing ground in their efforts to balance competing goals of sustainable cost, broad access, and good quality. Health insurance may be out of reach for many individuals in poor health . . .