Health Care Spending and the Affordable Care Act
What effect is the Affordable Care Act (ACA) having on health care spending? Is the ACA bending the cost curve downward, or will health care spending outpace other spending? What …
What Maxing Out Your Social Security Benefits Looks Like In Dollars
Forbes: Maximizing your Social Security depends on the particulars, says NCPA Senior Fellow Laurence Kotlikoff in a Forbes commentary.
Has the Affordable Care Act Slowed the Growth of Health Care Spending?
For years, health care spending has outpaced economic growth. However, in 2012, health care spending as a share of the economy declined slightly for the second year in a row, based on official government statistics released at the outset of 2014. This news was greeted in some quarters as evidence that the Affordable Care Act (ACA) was beginning to bend the cost curve downward.
Why Rich Are Getting Richer, And How Poor Can Catch Up
Investor’s Business Daily: Improving economic opportunity for the poor, not imposing more taxes, is the key to stemming income inequality, say Kathryn Shelton and NCPA Senior Fellow Richard McKenzie in their Investor’s Business Daily commentary.
Will Social Security Tell Me If I'm Leaving Benefits on the Table?
Forbes: Social Security won’t tell you if you’re leaving benefits on the table or when benefits become positive, says NCPA Senior Fellow Laurence Kotlikoff in a Forbes commentary.
ObamaCare rulings could create disadvantages for Mass. businesses
Boston Business Journal: According to NCPA experts, subsidies are a key part of the health insurance premium costs for millions of residents across the nation, reports the Boston Business Journal.
Health Care Expenditures Expected to Surge
NCPA: Just ahead of the upcoming annual report of the Medicare Trustees, the National Center for Policy Analysis (NCPA) will hold a Wednesday Capitol Hill briefing on health care spending and the Affordable Care Act, led by former Medicare Trustee and NCPA Senior Fellow Thomas R. Saving.
Monroe High School senior, JROTC cadet attending leadership program
Los Angeles Daily News: Four Star Leadership Participant Luz Gutierrez is featured in an L.A. Daily Newsfeature story.
Investing In Your Life: 4 Ways to Take Control of Health Care Spending
Forbes: NCPA Senior Fellow Devon Herrick outlines four ways to become a smart health care consumer in a Forbes article.
Social Security Reform Proposal Could Benefit Workers
NCPA: The federal government has two options if it wants to keep Social Security functioning, according to a new reportfrom the National Center for Policy Analysis (NCPA). Since 2010, benefit payments have exceeded revenues, and the deficit is only growing, according to Liqun Liu and NCPA Senior Fellows Andrew J. Rettenmaier and Thomas R. Saving.
The Huge SIPC Risk Your Broker Isn't Disclosing
Forbes: SIPC brokerage “insurance” fails to keep your account safe, says NCPA Senior Fellow Laurence Kotlikoff in a Forbes commentary.
Think Tank Offers 2 Options to Preserve Social Security
Benefits Pro: NCPA experts offer two suggestions to save Social Security in a Benefits Pro article.
How Social Security Reform Could Benefit Workers
Congress is once again considering changes to Social Security in an attempt to “save” the program. Social Security benefit payments have exceeded tax revenues since 2010; the funding deficit is growing and, barring reform, will continue to grow indefinitely. Higher tax revenues are necessary to fund benefits as they are currently calculated.
Murphy: Repealing Texas’ Franchise Tax
Austin American Statesman: The franchise tax causes the most harm per dollar raised and should be repealed, says NCPA Senior Fellow Ryan Murphy in an Austin American-Statesman commentary.
Health Care Expenditures Expected to Surge
NCPA: The recent slowing of health care expenditures is already reversing, and health care spending will continue to rise over the coming years, according to a new report from the National Center for Policy Analysis (NCPA) to be released July 23 in Washington, D.C.
Tax Reform, Not Tax Inversions, Will Rescue the U.S. Pharma, Bio, and Medical-Device Industries
Forbes: Our anti-competitive tax code is driving businesses away from the United States, says NCPA Senior Fellow John R. Graham in a Forbes commentary.
Social Security Q&A: Your Social Security Benefits Depend On the Specifics
Forbes: The path to maximizing your Social Security benefit depends on a number of factors, says NCPA Senior Fellow Laurence Kotlikoff in a Forbes commentary.
Social Security Q&A July 12, 2014: What Social Security's Survivors Planner Won't Tell You About Taking Widows Benefits
Forbes: NCPA Senior Fellow Larry Kotlikoff discusses the relationship between Social Security and widow’s benefits in a Forbes commentary.
Social Security Q&A: What maxing out your Social Security benefits looks like in dollars
Forbes: NCPA Senior Fellow Larry Kotlikoff explains the benefits of waiting to collect your lifetime Social Security benefits in a Forbes commentary.
Why the “Rich” Get Richer Quicker than the “Poor”
NCPA: Important explanations for the income gap between the “rich” and the “poor” make the growth in income disparity “practically inevitable,” explain National Center for Policy Analysis Senior Fellow Richard McKenzie and Kathryn Shelton in a new study.
Even Highly-Educated Millennials Struggle with Healthcare.gov
FOX Business: While the online healthcare exchange was meant to be a one-stop shop for insurance, it wasn’t well tested or designed before it was first launched, says NCPA Senior Fellow Devon Herrick in a FOX Business article.
Why the "Rich" Can Get Richer Faster than the "Poor"
President Barack Obama has tagged the growing inequality of income over the past three or four decades as “the defining challenge of our time,” an often-repeated claim recently echoed by economist Thomas Piketty in Capital in the Twenty-First Century. Numerous social and economic factors explain why the income and wealth gaps have grown, from the rise in family breakdown to the incentives embedded in government welfare programs.
Texas Beats California: No Income Tax, Booming Economy, Friendly Folks
The New American: Toyota employees moving with the company from California to Texas will save big, regardless of their income, said NCPA Senior Fellow Pam Villarreal in a piece at The New American.
Income Inequality
McCuistion: NCPA Senior Fellow Pam Villarreal discusses the causes and solutions to income inequality with NCPA interim President and CEO Dennis McCuistion on KERA’s McCusition.
Democrats Abandoning Obamacare’s Employer Mandate
Newsmax: The costs imposed by ObamaCare’s employer mandate will hurt small business’ hiring, employee compensation and business growth, says NCPA Senior Fellow Devon Herrick in a Newsmax article.