At a December 2 Alliance for Health Reform briefing, cosponsored by The Commonwealth Fund, Kaiser Family Foundation, SCAN Foundation, and Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, a panel of experts discussed the potential implications for federal health policy of the failure of the Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction—known as the super committee—to reach agreement on how to reduce the federal deficit. In a new blog post, The Commonwealth Fund’s Caryn Marks, M.P.P., Megan Keenan, M.P.H., and Stuart Guterman summarize the panelists’ views on what will happen next and ways to reduce federal spending on health care programs.
