public agenda

Mending America's fiscal issues will be an immensely complicated feat. Still, with the proper policies and political considerations, our fiscal woes can be rectified. In this edition of Facing Up's blog carnival, we are taking Medicare to task.

Public Agenda and Facing Up include the following overview/analysis here on the Facing Up site. With that said, I've republished it for the purposes of our Medicare blog carnival. The following text provides an overview of the problems associated with America's Medicare system.

With the presidential campaign intensifying, discussion about the nation’s finances is sporadic, with much of it embedded in stories about the presidential candidates’ opinions on an array of important issues like taxation, Social Security and Medicare.

Scott Bittle and Jean Johnson, editors of Public Agenda Online and authors of the new book Where Does the Money Go?: Your Guided Tour to the Federal Budget Crisis will appear today (2/14) on NPR’s Fresh Air with Terry Gross and tomorrow (2/15) on PBS’s Bill Moyers Journal.  They'll be discussing their new book, the federal budget and s