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Respondent Slides
Demonstrating the links between research,
practice, and policy in early childhood
mental health
David de Voursney
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The Federal Deficit and Debt
The Federal Debt and Deficit In Billions
$14,000
You Are Here
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Deficit
$6,000
Debt
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Data for chart on left from Historical Tables FY 2009 Budget - OMB
and Historical Budget Data and Projections - CBO
Other charts found on the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities
Website
More Charts
How about states?
What happened? What will happen?
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Healthcare costs are straining federal and
state budgets, the ability of employers to
provide benefits, and the wellbeing of
families.
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Healthcare spending doubled from 1996
to 2006, and is projected to rise to 25% of
GDP in 2025.
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Employer-sponsored health insurance
premiums have more than doubled in the
last 9 years, a rate 4 times faster than
cumulative wage increases.
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Half of all personal bankruptcies are at
least partly the result of medical
expenses.
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An estimated 87 million people – 1 in
every 3 Americans under the age of 65 were uninsured at some point in 2007 and
2008.
Statistics on the right taken from “The Costs of Inaction” - a white house
report
The Takeaway
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We won’t be getting (much) new money.
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We have to be smart and organized, efficiencies must be realized
through new science and better management.
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We must use our data resources to allocate funds more efficiently,
inform quality improvement, and feed new research.
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We must build a data infrastructure to enable these things to happen.
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We must tailor our efforts to make them usable by the current workforce.
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We need to leverage existing recourses, like families and other social
networks.