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Making Tough Budget Choices to Create a Better Future

GAO-08-604CG Published: Mar 12, 2008. Publicly Released: Mar 12, 2008.
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This is a Comptroller General Presentation delivered to the National Defense University Industrial College of the Armed Forces, at Ft. McNair in Washington, D.C. on March 12, 2008. Major topics of this presentation include: systemic defense acquisition challenges, DOD transformation, health care reform, social security reform, potential fiscal outcomes, and the growing fiscal burden.

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Balanced budgetsBudget administrationBudget authorityBudget controllabilityBudget deficitDefense budgetsDefense cost controlDefense procurementDeficit financingDeficit reductionEconomic analysisEconomic growthEconomic policiesFederal social security programsFiscal policiesHealth care cost controlHealth care costsHealth care programsHealth care reformIntergovernmental fiscal relationsMedicaidMedicareTransparency