A Plan To Cut Spending And Balance The Budget By 2020

"Policymakers should implement an emergency plan of cuts to defense, domestic, and entitlement programs. This essay proposes spending cuts of $1 trillion annually by 2020, which would balance the budget without resorting to damaging tax increases"

Department of Health and Human Services
	Block grant Medicaid and freeze spending*		190.0
	Repeal 2010 health care law*		87.0
	Increase Medicare premiums*		57.0
	Cut state and local grants by 50%		40.1
	Cut Medicare payment error rate by 50%		24.4
	Increase Medicare deductibles*		13.0
	Tort reform		10.0
	Total cuts		421.5