Entitlement Spending : Our Coming Fiscal Tsunami

Front Cover -- Book Title -- Contents -- List of Figures and Tables -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- I. Our Coming Tsunami -- II. Facing Up to the Elephants in the Room: Medicare and Medicaid -- III. Cutting Through the Social Security Fog -- IV. There Is No Time Left to Punt Again -- V. "The Man Behind the Tree Is You and Me" -- Appendices -- Appendix 1: The National Debt -- Appendix 2: The Federal Budget -- Appendix 3: The Potential Consequences of Our Current Fiscal Path -- Appendix 4: Perceptions, Misperceptions, and Myths About the Problem -- Appendix 5: Why the "Problem" Is a Problem -- Appendix 6: The Significance of Addressing the Problem Sooner Rather than Later -- Appendix 7: What Options Are There to Address the Problem? -- Supplementary Material: Brief Descriptions of Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, and "All- Other" Spending -- About the Author -- Index.