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.
America's health care system is an uneven playing field. Government subsidizes employer-provided health insurance by excluding the premiums from taxation.
Amid skyrocketing costs and growing concerns over healthcare quality, three promising reforms are gaining ground in the market and on Capitol Hill.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The Dallas-based National Center for Policy Analysis (NCPA) today announced the addition of Michael F. Cannon, as its Director of Government Affairs.
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.
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.