How can we control the rising cost of Medicare? Fortunately, there are an enormous number of people who have answers. These include most of the 44 million enrollees, 650,000 doctors and 30,000 facilities participating in Medicare. In fact, almost everyone who has contact with the system can produce examples of waste and inefficiency that could be eliminated
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Congress should consider carefully the high costs of carbon offset schemes, and the problems of measuring and verifying reductions of greenhouse gas emissions under such systems, before including similar programs in domestic greenhouse-gas legislation.
By comparison with what's to come, $790 billion is small change.
Last month Barack Obama became the new president of the United States, a president with a different set of beliefs and perspective about how our country should, function, change and–hopefully–prosper. The last president with such vision (although from a different perspective) was Ronald Reagan, who according to most scholarly surveys was one of the best presidents in America's history.
Congress has just given a big assist to millions of jobless Americans facing a tough decision: Do they reach into their wallet to continue health insurance coverage with their old employer or not?
With U.S. President Barack Obama visiting Canada today just as the market is threatening to fall to new lows, it's worth looking at some of his ideas to reform Social Security and the American retirement system.
The new federal health council created to oversee medical treatments will promote government rationing of health care, a practice pioneered by Oregon, according to the National Center for Policy Analysis.
To our knowledge, the Oregon Health Plan is the first government health care program anywhere in the world that has drawn up a formal procedure for rationing.
If the government limits carbon emissions now through taxes or direct caps, it is taxing the poor today to benefit wealthier future generations.
It's hard to find anyone who likes America's health care system, including John Goodman, president and founder of the National Center for Policy Analysis. But you'll never find Goodman saying that health care is better in places like Europe, where socialist governments provide "free" universal health care for everyone.
Mitt Romney arrived at the House Republicans' late-January retreat to a room that hardly needed a pep talk. Their vote against the Democrats' Economic Recovery Act had revved them up; all Romney needed to tell them was that they "stood strong," and that their fellow Republicans stood proud. Romney, who'd testified at the sole House Republican hearing on the stimulus, urged them to take one step further.
The Charles G. Koch Charitable Foundation Internship Program was established to develop the next generation of liberty-minded leaders and entrepreneurs. The project assignments cover fascinating areas including policy research, leadership …
Americans have invested more than $225 billion in Roth IRAs, an NCPA-originated idea. Since deposits are made after tax and withdrawals are tax-free, these accounts are protected from future tax …
WASHINGTON – A year ago, restructuring Social Security to include personal investment accounts was President Bush's top domestic priority, touted in his State of the Union address and promoted in …
NCPA Projects In Action Tax and Retirement Policy Reform Distinguished Fellow Robert D. McTeer, Jr., has been a leader in promoting pro-growth reforms as the NCPA spokesperson on economic and …
Small business employees are much less likely to have access to employer-sponsored health coverage than the employees of larger firms.
CEO, Franks and Associates Tommy Franks was born in Wynnewood (pronounced “Winnywood”) Oklahoma and grew up in Midland, Texas where he graduated from Robert E. Lee High School one year …
Policy Analyst Christa Bieker is a policy analyst with the National Center for Policy Analysis. In this role she provides resources and topic analysis for NCPA's Debate Central web site …
Greg Scandlen is the founder of Consumers for Health Care Choices, a non-partisan, non-profit membership organization aimed at empowering consumers in the health care system.
Senior Fellow Philip K. Porter is a professor of economics at the University of South Florida and Director of the school’s Center for Economic Policy Analysis. He has authored numerous articles …
Senior Fellow Laurence J. Kotlikoff is Professor of Economics at Boston University, Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research, Fellow of the Econometric Society, a former member of the …
Senior Fellow Estelle James is a consultant to the World Bank, USAID and other international organizations. Previously she was Lead Economist at the World Bank and Director of the Bank’s flagship …
Senior Fellow Michael L. Davis is a lecturer in economics and finance in the Cox School of Business at Southern Methodist University, where he teaches graduate classes in managerial economics, game …
Senior Fellow Michael Bond is a professor of finance at Cleveland State University. His work on health care policy reform has received national attention and appeared in a wide range of …