The New York Senate has passed a bill to impose a nine-month moratorium on granting new permits for natural gas production through hydraulic fracturing (fracking) in the state's portion of the massive, multistate Marcellus shale rock formation.
American businesses pay billions of dollars in tariffs each year on exports to countries that are willing to eliminate those tariffs. Why? Because Congress has failed to ratify three key trade agreements already negotiated and signed by the United States.
The National Center for Policy Analysis elected Greg Wilkinson, president of Hill & Wilkinson Ltd., to its board of directors.
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Industry Watch references NCPA's new health care publication — "What Does Health Reform Mean To You? A Consumer's Guide"
Estelle James' New York Times op-ed about Chile's incentives to keep seniors working longer, caught the attention of the Houston Chronicle, who mentioned it in their weekend edition.
The NCPA's consumer guide is linked on Kaiser Health News.
Have you ever seen a fair, unbiased, evenhanded explanation of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act? Have you ever seen anything that even appeared to be objective? I haven’t.
John Goodman on the NCPA’s consumer guide to health reform on The Health Care Blog.
The first detailed and objective consumer's guide on the impact of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act has just been released by the National Center for Policy Analysis (NCPA), titled "What Does Health Care Reform Mean To You? A Consumer's Guide"
Summer is almost ended, and Americans are growing more and more skeptical about the coming fall–about our lack of jobs, our bigger and more expensive government, the higher taxes that will be coming soon, more expensive and less personal health care, and, most important, our declining economy.
Disability costs are rising in many countries, including the United States. Disability is the fastest-rising component of U.S. Social Security, growing at nearly twice the rate of retirement benefit spending. Chile, however, reversed this trend when it implemented a new retirement and disability benefits system in 1981.
American workers live longer each decade but they continue to retire early. They often begin receiving Social Security benefits, quit working and stop contributing to national output well before age 65. Reversing these trends must be an important objective when designing long-term reforms to balance revenues and expenditures on elderly entitlements.
Modern Healthcare magazine has named National Center for Policy Analysis President, CEO and Kellye Wright Fellow John Goodman among the 100 Most Powerful People in Healthcare.
Over the next two decades, 78 million Americans will quit working, quit paying into the Social Security system and start drawing benefits, straining the resources of our public pension system.
If conservatives regain power at the federal level, there is a single, revolutionary idea they should implement: the taxpayer savings account (TSA). A TSA would be established for every taxpayer, overseen by the government, into which future tax payments would be deposited. The TSA would be a substitute for the current withholding and quarterly estimated tax payment system.
Dr. Goodman is quoted by the Washington Examiner on how Medicare patients will face a difficult game of "musical chairs" to find treatment.
John Goodman on why the alternative Medicare report is grim news for seniors, in The Health Care Blog
New Republic Senior Editor Jonathan Cohn makes a point by point response to John Goodman's earlier Kaiser Health commentary on Medicaid rescissions.
In his latest Kaiser Health News column, John Goodman writes about Medicaid Rescissions.
CNNMoney talks with Pamela Villarreal about the expiration of the Bush Tax Cuts
As the economy forces states to cut budgets nationwide, Texas is considering cutting reimbursements to doctors who treat Medicaid patients. With physician participation in Medicare already declining in the state and across the nation, Texas doctors are warning support for the program may fall even further if the cuts go through.
John Goodman's latest post at The Health Care Blog explains why this year's Medicare Trustees' Report is unprecedented.
John Goodman's latest post at The Health Care Blog explains why this year's Medicare Trustees' Report is unprecedented.
Reason Magazine references John Goodman's view on Health Care Innovations