The HMO In Your Future
The Health Care Blog – Nationwide, Medicare will start paying fees to ACOs, beginning next year. Eventually, the Obama administration would like to see everyone in an ACO.
The HMO In Your Future
The Health Care Blog – Nationwide, Medicare will start paying fees to ACOs, beginning next year. Eventually, the Obama administration would like to see everyone in an ACO.
President's debt commission leaders speak at NCPA event.
C-SPAN: NCPA President, CEO & Kelly Wright Fellow John Goodman interviews Alan Simpson and Erskine Bowles about the work of the president's debt commission, its final recommendations, and congressional reaction …
Beckmann: Snyder's Union Challenge
The Michigan View – The NCPA analysis of 153 state and municipal plans found unfunded liabilities for health and other benefits of $558 billion and unfunded pension liabilities at a staggering total of $2.5 trillion.
Medical Groups Warn Of Climate Change's Potential Impact on Health
US NEWS & World Report: Health Day – Experts from leading U.S. medical groups gathered Thursday to warn of impending dangers to human health if greenhouse gas emissions continue unchecked, speeding climate change.
Canadian Family in Life Support Battle Denied Request for Hospital Transfer
Fox News – The parents of a Canadian boy ordered off life support by government health officials have been denied a request to transfer the 13-month-old to the Children's Hospital of Michigan.
Toughen up, Ohio Republicans
Cleveland Plain Dealer – The race to restore fiscal sanity — something the vast majority of Americans alive today have never really known — is going to be a long, tough, acrimonious one. But it has to be run.
The Fed's Mandate
When the Federal Reserve was created in 1913, Congress did not give it a monetary policy goal as we understand that term today. The Fed’s monetary policy role evolved gradually, and congressional mandates – such as achieving full employment and price stability – came later. Now the question is back at the forefront: What should the Fed be doing?
Roadblock On Domestic Oil Production Even More Costly Now
The ongoing turmoil throughout the Middle East highlights the continuing and pervasive vulnerability of the U.S. economy to oil price instability, yet the Obama administration continues to thwart any efforts to increase domestic oil production, according to National Center for Policy Analysis (NCPA) Senior Fellow H. Sterling Burnett.
Concierge Medicine – A Consequence of Health Reform Law
Medinnovation: John Goodman, PhD, the economist who founded and heads the National Center for Policy Analysis in Dallas, is predicting a major migration of physicians into concierge medical practices in the Health Affairs Blog ("Future of Consumer-Driven Care," Health Alert, February 18).
The Future of Consumer-Directed Health Care
Health Affairs Blog: Over the next decade I believe we are going to see a major transformation of American medicine. It won't be the kind of transformation that is normally discussed at health care conferences and at inside-the-Beltway briefings. Nor will it be the kind of change anticipated by the people who gave us the Affordable Care Act (ObamaCare). Instead, what I envision is a large migration of patients and doctors, and facilities and services out of the third-party payer system.
The Future of Consumer-Directed Health Care
Health Affairs Blog: Over the next decade I believe we are going to see a major transformation of American medicine. It won't be the kind of transformation that is normally discussed at health care conferences and at inside-the-Beltway briefings. Nor will it be the kind of change anticipated by the people who gave us the Affordable Care Act (ObamaCare). Instead, what I envision is a large migration of patients and doctors, and facilities and services out of the third-party payer system.
Pension Bomb
Gulf Coast Business Review: Municipal pension programs are reaching crisis proportions, and several Gulf Coast cities rank among the state's worst.
Prepare for Health Care Ping Pong
The Atlantic: Health Affairs has a new article suggesting that low-income workers are going to be moving back and forth between Medicaid and the exchanges at a disturbingly rapid pace (H/T John Goodman):
Green Energy Poses a Major Threat to US National Security
Examiner.com – H. Sterling Burnett, a Senior Fellow with the National Center for Policy Analysis, wrote a piece earlier this week that shows the entire folly of the green movement.
Feb 17, 2011
NCPA Senior Policy Analyst Pam Villarreal will speak at a meeting of the Center Right Coalition at Sonny Bryan’s Barbecue, West End Marketplace, Dallas, Texas. The topic will be Unfunded Liabilities …
Valentine's Week Edition Of The Health Wonk Review
Colorado Long Term Care Insider: Welcome to the Health Wonk Review! This week's edition has tons of great articles from some of the best wonks in the healthcare blogosphere.
Too Much Energy in the Executive
In 2008, Sen. Barack Obama criticized President Bush's effort to "bring more and more power into the executive branch" and promised to reverse it when he became president. All of which goes to show how different promises and policies can be. Candidate Obama said it was wrong for a president to consolidate power in the White House, but President Obama followed a different path, bringing more power into his office and at times taking it away from Congress and the American people.
BURNETT: Obama's green power builds China's red power
The Washington Times: Increasing the United States' reliance on "clean" energy, as touted by President Obama yet again in this week's budget proposal, would leave Americans just as dependent on unreliable foreign suppliers as we are now on the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries' stranglehold on oil.
BURNETT: Obama's green power builds China's red power
The Washington Times: Increasing the United States' reliance on "clean" energy, as touted by President Obama yet again in this week's budget proposal, would leave Americans just as dependent on unreliable foreign suppliers as we are now on the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries' stranglehold on oil.
"Must-Reads"
The American Spectator: John Goodman: "It's as though the White House has concluded that seniors matter and poor people don't – at least in politics."
Exports Create Better Jobs, But Not Necessarily More Jobs
Forbes.com– Export growth is a good thing. However, the impact of exports on jobs and GDP must be considered in conjunction with the accompanying increase in imports.
Auto-Enrollment Retirement Plans Better for Workers and Small Businesses
The economy and changes in retirement plan options have made it difficult for small businesses to offer employer-sponsored retirement plans for employees, according to a joint report from the National Center for Policy Analysis (NCPA) and PostPartisan Foundation for The Campaign for Economic Security.
Small Business and Employee Retirement Savings Plans
Over several decades, employer-provided pension plans have played a diminishing role in employees retirement incomes. ?”Defined benefit” plans provide a post-retirement income based on a worker’s earnings history and tenure. But defined benefit pensions now cover only 20 percent of private-sector employees – just half the rate of three decades ago.
NCPA Report: Does Green Energy Jeopardize U.S. Security?
DALLAS -President Obama's call for a national green energy economy to reduce our foreign dependence on oil and create domestic jobs will actually backfire, forcing total U.S. dependence on China's monopoly holding of the world's supply of "rare earth elements," the rare minerals needed for most green technologies, according to a new report from the National Center for Policy Analysis (NCPA).