Entitlement Reform Process de Government Accountability Office

Entitlement Reform Process

Government Accountability Office

en Limba Engleză Paperback – 31 aug 2008

This book analyses: (1) other countries' major efforts to reform entitlement programs, (2) the pressure(s) that led countries to undertake the reforms, (3) how reform proposals were developed, and (4) to what extent enacted reforms built in triggers requiring future actions under certain conditions; and where such trigger mechanisms did not exist, whether some adjustments nonetheless occurred. This book is an excerpted and indexed edition.

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Preface; Background; Results in Brief; Many Countries Have Reformed Entitlement Programs and Reform Efforts Continue; A Variety of Pressures Have Led to Entitlement Reform in Other Countries; How Reform Proposals Were Developed in Other Countries; The Reform Process May Continue Following Enactment of Legislation; Implications for the United States; Appendix I - Scope and Methodology; Appendix II - Summary of Selected U.S. Commissions; Appendix III - Summary of Selected Reform Efforts; Appendix IV - Pension Reform in Sweden; Reform Overview: Significance of the Reform; Origins of Reform; The Reform Process; Post-Reform Implementation and Adjustments; Legacy of the Reform; Appendix V - Disability Reform in the Netherlands; Reform Overview: Significance of the Reform; Disability in the Netherlands Differs from that in the United States; Origins and History of Reform; Structural Reform Implemented in 2006, Prompted by the Donner Commission; Expectations: The Future of Reform; Appendix VI - Pension Reform in Germany; Reform Overview: Significance of the Reforms; Entitlement Reform Process; Origins and History of the Reforms; The Reforms and the Public; Expectations: The Future of Reform; Index.