or take sheila lowpatch, a 24-year-old daughter in school and had no health coverage. anks to health reform, young adults across the country like sheila's daughter can stay on their parents insurance coverage and parents like sheila can worry less. just as health reform reduced cost for individuals and businesses, the law reduced government costs most notably through medicare. the health reform law provided the biggest deficit reduction in more than a decade. according to our nonpartisan score keeper, the congressional budget office, the law will reduce deficits by $143 billion in the first ten years. by more than $1 trillion in the decade that follows. we need to continue this progre progress. we look forward to hearing from hhs secretary kathleen sebelius today about how the president's budget doll that. today nearly 48 million americans are enrolled in medicare. as a baby boom generation retires, the number of seniors eligible for medicare will increase rapidly. over the next decade, 18 million additional americans will enroll in medicare. we need to insure these ben