Medicare Chief Actuary Disavows Trustees’ Report, Publishes an Alternative Report – Right Side News
This year's annual Medicare report is cause for serious concern according to John Goodman's commentary in Right Side News.
Worst disaster ever or a gusher of hype? – Philadelphia Daily News
Referring to the Gulf oil spill, NCPA Senior Fellow, H. Sterling Burnett tells the Philadelphia Inquirer that the disaster du jour almost never stands up to the harsh light of reality.
Health Wonk Review Review: PPACA 2.0, 3.0, 4.0? – National Review Online
National Review reports on John Goodman in The Health Wonk Review.
Medicare Actuary Doubts the Health of Medicare’s Trust Fund – Reason Magazine
Reason Magazine quotes John Goodman on the Chief Actuary's concern over the latest Medicare report.
Health Care Forum: John Goodman and Ron Anderson -The McCuistion Show
The McCuistion Show website reports on the recent NCPA Health Care Forum.
Great Uncertainty on Medicare Cuts – Fox News
On FOX News.com, John Goodman disputes claims that the health care law has "dramatically improved Medicare's finances."
John C. Goodman on Fox News Channel
NCPA President John C. Goodman explains to FOX News Channel the unprecedented problems outlined in the annual Medicare Trustees Report.
Do Drug Courts Work?
Drug courts are judicially supervised programs that provide long-term treatment and other services to nonviolent drug law offenders. Cases can be referred to drug courts in lieu of or in addition to traditional criminal punishment, such as incarceration or probation.
Lessons from the Horizon blowout: more hype than harm
Only two weeks after BP began capping the Deepwater Horizon oil rig blowout, people have begun to ask, "Where's the oil?" The fact that skimmer ships sent out to clean the water of oil are unable to find oil to clean is leading the mainstream media to question whether environmentalists tried to exploit this unfortunate event by making it seem worse than it really was for political reasons.
Public Is More Savvy than Harris Polltakers – The Health Care Blog
Dr. Goodman says seniors know best, in the post on The Health Care Blog.
The Limit of Tax Revenues
The Greeks have always been trendsetters for the West. Washington has repudiated two centuries of U.S. fiscal prudence as prescribed by the Founding Fathers in favor of the modern Greek model of debt, dependency, devaluation and default. Prospects for restraining runaway U.S. debt are even poorer than they appear.
Is a VAT the Answer?
All over the developed world, countries are facing an extremely unpleasant budgetary reality: Per capita health care spending is growing at twice the rate of growth of per capita income.
Gulf Oil Spill Becomes More Hype Than Reality
Dallas – More than two weeks after BP began capping a spewing oil rig, it seems that much of the resulting oil spill has disappeared, and evidence suggests that environmentalists may have tried to take this most unfortunate event and make it seem worse than it really was, according to NCPA Senior Fellow, H. Sterling Burnett.
MTA Releases a Healthcare Reform White Paper – Health Tourism Magazine
Devon Herrick tells Health Tourism Magazine the health reform law contains virtually nothing to encourage patients and providers to control costs.
Millions Expected to Lose Their Current Coverage Under Obamacare – Health Care News
Patients may not get what they expect from the new health reform law, said Devon Herrick in Health Care News.
Would economy be helped or hurt? – Atlanta Journal Constitution
NCPA's Pamela Villarreal told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution that if the Bush tax cuts expire at the end of 2010, there would be less after-tax income for high-income earners to spend in other areas of the economy.