TRICARE, the military health insurance program run by the Department of Defense, has a well-deserved reputation for inadequate quality at an exorbitant public cost. Drastic changes to this program are needed to ensure access to health care for 9.6 million active-duty service members, National Guardsmen and Reservists, retired service members (age 60 and above), survivors and their families.
FOXBusiness.com: NCPA Senior Fellow Pam Villarreal calls Obama’s continued efforts to raise the minimum wage an attempt to distract the American people from the real issues – ObamaCare’s continuing problems and the nationwide job shortage – in a FOXBusiness.com article.
Investor’s Business Daily: Economic growth is the greatest cure for poverty, but growth like that seen in the past few generations is rare, says NCPA President John Goodman in an Investor’s Business Daily op-ed. According to Goodman, the best way to assure that growth continues is to decrease both taxes and economic regulations.
Heartland.org: NCPA President John Goodman’s tax credit-based solution to health care was discussed in Heartland’s latest ObamaCare Consumer Power Report.
FOX News: Healthy people who lose their coverage and are forced into the exchange are overcharged in order to pay for the older, sicker people, says NCPA President John Goodman on FOX’s Special Report with Bret Baier.
Market analysts usually attribute changes in the prices of commodities — uniform, widely traded goods, such as metals — to higher or lower demand in major world economies, such as the United States and China. However, the price of a commodity also relates to the value of the currency in which prices are expressed, in most cases the U.S. dollar.
TownHall.com: If the administration bans Medicare Part D’s use of preferred networks, nearly 14 million seniors will lose their drug plans, says NCPA Senior Fellow Devon Herrick in a TownHall.com commentary.
Yahoo! Finance: NCPA Distinguished Fellow Bob McTeer warns that higher insurance premiums will reduce discretionary spending in a Bankrate article at Yahoo!Finance.
FOXBusiness.com: NCPA Senior Fellow Pam Villarreal calls the Obama’s proposal to expand the eligibility of the Earned Income Tax Credit an expanded subsidy, but says it’s still better than a minimum wage hike in a FOXBusiness.com article.
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R. David Ranson is the president and director of research at H.C. Wainwright & Co. Economics, Inc. (Wainwright Economics), an independent investment research firm now located in Cambria, California. Originally the investment performance research arm of H.C. Wainwright & Co. of Boston, Massachusetts, Wainwright Economics became an independent operation in 1978.
Somewhat Reasonable: Standardizing charges worked to drop joint replacement costs in California, observed NCPA President John Goodman in a piece at the Heartland Institute’s Somewhat Reasonable.
Dallas Morning News: Economic Analyst and recent NCPA/Hatton W. Sumners luncheon speaker David Stockman warned of the dangers of the Federal Reserve’s current course of action in an interview with Dallas Morning News.