Three Avenues to Patient Power
America's health care system is an uneven playing field. Government subsidizes employer-provided health insurance by excluding the premiums from taxation.
Expanding Patient Power: Ideas for the 108th Congress
Amid skyrocketing costs and growing concerns over healthcare quality, three promising reforms are gaining ground in the market and on Capitol Hill.
Are We Running Out of Oil?
Over the past 150 years, geologists and other scientists often have predicted that our oil reserves would run dry within a few years. When oil prices rise for an extended period, the news media fill with dire warnings that a crisis is upon us. Environmentalists argue that governments must develop new energy technologies that do not rely on fossil fuels. The facts contradict these harbingers of doom.
States Ask Uncle Sam to Spare a Dime
According to a report published this fall by the National Governor's Association, faced with declining revenue states have had to slash spending, leading to lost jobs and fewer government services. They argue that most states have exhausted budget cuts and must now receive help.
State of the Union: Redefining Domestic Policy by Addressing Market Challenges
Today's challenges are tied together by a single word – markets. Whether it's the need to stimulate the private capital markets to get the economy moving again, or it's creating and expanding markets to save our troubled elderly entitlement programs and health care system, focusing on markets is the key to a brighter future.
Climate Change: Science or Science Fiction
The politics of global warming is very curious. It is a unique instance where a political argument is wrapped in the cloak of science, while at the same time violating the most important rules of scientific research.
Social Security Reform: The Risk Factor
Is the stock market too risky for retirement savings? Only if you believe the opponents of President Bush's proposal to reform Social Security with personal retirement accounts. Fortunately, history is not on their side.
Social Security and Stock Market Risk
Social Security reform is one of the nation's most prominent domestic policy issues. A common feature of many leading Social Security reform plans is that they would prefund benefits by integrating personal retirement accounts into the current system.
How Not to Be Poor
About 31 million Americans live in households with incomes below the poverty level, according to the latest U.S. Census data. Poverty is more than a lack of income. It is also the consequence of specific behaviors and decisions.
A Backdoor Attempt to Implement the Kyoto Protocol
Why do bad ideas linger with such persistence in the halls of Congress? This question came to mind when Senators John McCain and Joe Lieberman recently introduced legislation to reduce U.S. greenhouse gas emissions to prevent global warming.
Should We Trade With Cuba?
The U.S. embargo on Cuba was instituted in 1961 to overthrow Fidel Castro and neutralize the threat his regime posed by blocking all trade, except in food and medicine.
NCPA’S Bartlett To Appear On CNN’s Lou Dobbs’ Moneyline
Bruce Bartlett, senior fellow with the National Center for Policy Analysis (NCPA), will appear tonight (Monday, January 13, 2003) on CNN's Lou Dobbs' Moneyline.
NCPA – Estes is CFO, Smith is Director of IT/Online
The National Center for Policy Analysis (NCPA) today announced that Janice Estes is chief financial officer and Rick Smith is director of IT/Online Services.
Technology and Freedom: The Virtuous Circle
Without freedom, technologies that enhance human welfare would be scarce rather than abundant. Technology and freedom are symbiotic, forming a virtuous circle. By examining the relationship between them, we can find ways to preserve the circle and to accelerate activity within it.
Following the Reagan Rule
The Economic Club of Chicago may seem a strange place to unite Americans, but that is what President Bush did there on Tuesday with the jobs-and-growth program he proposed. Economic growth is a common priority that draws Americans together, for we all need the jobs it creates, the resources it provides employers to invest in new machines and technologies, and the larger investment returns that keep everything from our local charities to our kids' schools and the market economy prospering.
NCPA Names Capitol Hill Veteran, Michael F. Cannon, Director Of Government Affairs
The Dallas-based National Center for Policy Analysis (NCPA) today announced the addition of Michael F. Cannon, as its Director of Government Affairs.
Extending Jobless Benefits May Prolong Unemployment
The National Center for Policy Analysis (NCPA) says that extending unemployment benefits may actually prolong joblessness for an estimated 800,000 Americans whose already-extended benefits expired Sunday.
Is Extending Unemployment Benefits A Good Idea?
A desire to relieve suffering can sometimes hurt. Moving an accident victim can worsen his injuries, despite our good intentions. Similarly, a desire to help the unemployed can actually delay their reemployment.