When news broke about Climategate, NCPA Senior Fellow Sterling Burnett told the National Review that scientists have tried to suppress criticism of the "hockey stick" graph, and when that proved impossible and researchers exposed the graph's deep flaws, the scientists settled for ignoring or downplaying the problem.
Sens. John Kerry, D-Mass., and Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., have offered a global warming bill that would further the government's growing stranglehold on the economy by commandeering the energy sector through climate legislation.
In October, the unemployment rate in the United States reached 10.2 percent. Most economists consider about 5 percent to be full employment. Not surprisingly, job growth is a hot political issue.
Elections matter. They are sometimes governed by voters' passion; they sometimes change the course the country is following (as in 2008); and sometimes, like earlier this month, they fire warning shots across the bow of our ship of state.
Chairman Wyden, Ranking Member Barrasso, and other members of the subcommittee thank you for allowing me the opportunity to testify today. I represent the National Center for Policy Analysis (NCPA) a nonprofit, nonpartisan public policy research organization dedicated to developing and promoting private alternatives to government regulation and control, solving problems by relying on the strength of a competitive, entrepreneurial private sector.
Illustrating the importance of wellness promotion in the debate over health care reform, the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee approved a version of the health care reform bill …
In a development suggesting medical malpractice reform may help alleviate doctor shortages, a package of reforms in Missouri signed in 2005 by then-governor Matt Blunt (R-MO) to curb junk medical …
State governments are bracing for the effects of the most-prominent congressional health care proposals, all of which would expand Medicaid and increase the burden on state funding.
Sen. Max Baucus's (D-MT) plan would expand Medicaid eligibility to cover all U.S. citizens with incomes up to 133 percent of the federal poverty level starting in 2014. Federal taxpayers would be required to cover more of the cost than they currently do for newly eligible people-but less than 100 percent. States would have to make up the difference.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, seeking a new source of funding for the health-care overhaul legislation the Senate could begin debating next week, is considering a proposal to raise Medicare payroll taxes on couples who make more than $250,000 a year, according to people familiar with the discussions.
The cost of the Medicare physician payment fix will be more than $4 trillion, according to National Center for Policy Analysis President John C. Goodman.
As the Senate prepares to vote on its version of health care legislation, one of the most contentious issues will be a provision requiring employers to provide insurance coverage.
For your health reform analysis, National Center for Policy Analysis President John C. Goodman is available for interviews on the House health reform bill and the pending Senate legislation that would mean:
Prior to last Saturday's vote, The Wall Street Journal aptly called the House bill "the worst bill ever." The bill is enormously expensive, but it is full of perverse incentives – an issue already plaguing our health care systems.
Prior to last Saturday's vote, The Wall Street Journal aptly called the House bill "the worst bill ever." The bill is enormously expensive, but it is full of perverse incentives – an issue already plaguing our health care systems.
Although health care is dominating the discussion in Washington and throughout the country, Congress will also be deciding on a number of other issues in November. For example, the proposed changes on the estate tax issue could have just as much of an effect on Americans and the economy.
Madam Chairwoman and members of the Committee, thank you for inviting me today and giving me the opportunity to discuss the detrimental impact of the estate tax on small businesses and their families. Today, I am speaking on behalf of the National Center for Policy Analysis (NCPA), a nonprofit, nonpartisan public policy research organization dedicated to developing and promoting private alternatives to government regulation and control. NCPA recently started the Family Policy Center, which focuses on finding private solutions to issues faced by women, families, and small businesses.
Although health care is dominating the discussion in Washington and throughout the country, Congress will also be deciding on a number of other issues in November. For example, the proposed changes on the estate tax issue could have just as much of an effect on Americans and the economy.
NCPA Senior Fellow Sterling Burnett told Environment and Climate News that in less than one month, the cost estimate for a proposed 75 megawatt solar power plant has soared by more than 200 percent, and said that solar power is ultimately an expensive alternative to coal power, which is much cheaper and reliable.