Response To Clinton's State Survey
President Clinton today unveiled a state-by-state analysis on Medicare benefits to bolster support for his proposed plan to add a prescription drug benefit for seniors.
Inner-city Parents Desperately Desire to Bail Kids Out of Failing Public Schools
Regardless of party identification, gender or race, in poll after poll, education consistently registers among voters' top concerns.
Focus Point – McCain's Tax Plan
Hi…looking at specific programs offered by leading presidential candidates has brought me to John McCain's tax plan. Like a lot of proposals this year, it has its ups and its downs, but the ups are interesting.
Why the Social Security Earnings Penalty Should Be Repealed
The Social Security earnings test is among the most unfair and counterproductive policies ever imposed by the federal government. On the one hand, we are continually told that workers have a "right" to Social Security whenever there is a proposal to modify cost of living adjustments. But on the other hand, we take away benefits from many seniors simply because they have chosen to work past the normal retirement age.
Focus Point – British Health Service
Here's a puzzler. A near majority of Britons polled recently said their greatest 20th century achievement is the National Health Service.
Focus Point – A Real Prescription Drug Plan
Before Bill Clinton spends billions on his prescription drug program, somebody mail him a new study from the NCPA.
Ward Connerly
Chairman of the American Civil Rights Institute
NCPA Health Care Innovator In DC To Promote Widening Access Free-market Analyst Urges Congress to Consider Tax Credits & Revised MSAs
As Congressional conferees attempt to balance increasing health insurance access for the uninsured with protecting patients' rights, Dr. John Goodman, president of the National Center for Policy Analysis (NCPA) and prominent health reform economist, will be in Washington next week to support broadening access through refundable tax credits and expanded Medical Savings Accounts (MSAs).
Focus Point – Liberal Republicans
Yesterday I talked about the huge new Bill Clinton budget, and the necessity for House Republicans to stand up and be counted. But will they oppose its spending increases?
Time to Dump the Unfair Social Security Earnings Penalty
We may be about to rid ourselves of the Social Security earnings penalty – and about time. Congress is supposed to consider eliminating it this year, and President Clinton has said he favors eliminating it. Opposition to the proposal has yet to surface. And the budgetary arguments against it, always based on suspicious economics, have been weakened by a surging economy.
Focus Point – Clinton's Awful Budget
Bill Clinton's last budget is worse than I thought.
Focus Point – GOP Wins
Did you see the polls suggesting either Bush or McCain would beat either Gore or Bradley? Here's why that might be the case.
Focus Point – New York Times/Vouchers
Even when you know you're right, it's nice to see it confirmed in the New York Times.
Focus Point – Best and Worst Books
The Intercollegiate Studies Institute recently came up with a list of the 50 best and worst non-fiction books of the 20th century.
NCPA's Burnett Appointed To New e-Texas Citizens Commission
National Center for Policy Analysis Senior Analyst H. Sterling Burnett has been appointed by Texas Comptroller Carole Keeton Rylander to the new e-Texas citizens commission.
Focus Point – Religious War on Vouchers
When a Cleveland federal judge ruled against that city's school voucher program — a ruling now on appeal — he cited the first amendment's ban on government establishment of religion. Most of the schools involved are church-related. But Judge Solomon Oliver, Jr. doesn't know what he's talking about.
Focus Point – Gore's Hot Air
You have to hand it to Al Gore. When he stakes out a position, he sticks to it, no matter if the evidence shows he's completely wrong. And while he's wrong about a lot of things, he's really wrong about global warming.
Needed: Reform, Not a New Entitlement
Amazingly, even though enough money is being spent right now on health care for elderly Americans to provide prescription drug coverage for all of them, many of them aren't covered. The reason is the way Medicare is structured. And the answer is not a separate prescription drug entitlement, as proposed by some. Rather, the answer is reforming Medicare.
Focus Point – Unwanted Entitlements
At President Clinton's instruction, the Department of Labor has published a proposed regulation allowing states to pay unemployment insurance benefits to parents who take time off for the birth or adoption of a child.
Statement on the Social Security Earnings Test
If people have in fact earned their Social Security benefits, then they are entitled to them. No one takes away someone's private pension or annuity if that person continues to work after they have become entitled to benefits. This disparate treatment makes a mockery of the notion that Social Security is an earned benefit that people are entitled to by virtue of long years of work.
Bartlett Applauds Reps. Shaw, Johnson For Seeking To End Social Security Earnings Test
Responding to the announcement by Reps. Clay Shaw (R-FL) and Sam Johnson (R-TX) of their plans to propose a repeal of the earnings test for Social Security benefits, National Center for Policy Analysis Senior Fellow and former Treasury official Bruce Bartlett, issued the following statement.
Focus Point – Reagan's Boom
To hear Bill Clinton and Al Gore tell it, you'd think the economic boom is a democratic creation which began in January 1993.
Bartlett To Testify Against Earnings Test At Social Security Sub-Committee Hearing
Bruce Bartlett, senior fellow with the National Center for Policy Analysis (NCPASM), will provide testimony to the House Ways & Means Social Security Subcommittee on Tuesday, Feb. 15, on the Social Security earnings test.
Focus Point – Clinton's Cuts
The lead in the Wall Street Journal story gave me pause: according to the Joint Economic Committee of Congress, Bill Clinton is the only post-war president to reduce real per capita spending. No kidding, its true.
Biotechnology Could Feed the World and Save the Environment
The world is at a crossroads. One path takes us to brighter future, one where it is possible to feed the world's growing population without increasing pesticide use or converting more forests and meadows to croplands. The other path leads to lower food supplies, more illness and disease, and environmental degradation. Disturbingly, environmentalists are leading the charge to take the world down the second path.