I joke in my column today that the campaign to convince Washington that the entitlement crisis is really a health care crisis has mainly been fought with graphs. What I neglected to mention is the coming battle of the Powerpoints. The Peter G. Peterson foundation's president David Walker has been criss-crossing the country showing a Powerpoint entitled "Saving Our Future Requires Tough Choices Today," which you can download here (I'd embed, but they don't give that option). Walker argues that "the current fiscal policy is unsustainable" and our "entitlement programs must be reformed to reflect economic realities and longer life spans while also making them solvent, sustainable, secure and more savings-oriented." Now Demos and The Century Foundation have teamed up to create an answer. Their new Fiscal High Road project promises to advance "message and policy goals, based on in-depth research and empirical data, while rebutting widely perpetuated, misleading claims of an 'entitlements crisis' that distracts our elected leaders from focusing on solutions to some of our greatest challenges, such as containing rapidly rising health care costs and addressing comprehensive health care reform." And yes, they have a Powerpoint too. And theirs is embeddable!
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