NCPA: The National Center for Policy Analysis (NCPA) today launched the Financial Crisis Initiative, a coalition of top economic experts who will research and report on the causes and effects of the 2008 financial crisis and recommend solutions for the future.
NCPA: Last In First Out” valuation hinders the ability of investors to understand the true financial condition of the firms they’re investing in and puts small companies at a severe disadvantage, according to a new report by National Center for Policy Analysis Research Associate Santiago Bello.
Kickoff Event for the NCPA Financial Crisis Initiative Featuring New York Times Best Selling Author James Rickards WHEN: Thursday, April 30, 2015 9:30AM – 11:00AM WHERE: Bent Tree Country Club 5201 Westgrove Drive Dallas, TX …
A seemingly technical accounting issue has important implications for competition between large corporations and smaller firms, for U.S. businesses overseas, and for the ability of individuals to understand the true financial condition of the firms in which they invest.
LifeHealthPro: The Medicare “doc fix” doesn’t really fix anything, said NCPA Senior Fellow John R. Graham in a Life Health Pro article.
Chairman Vitter and members of the committee, thank you for the opportunity to submit written comments about the challenges small businesses face from Obamacare and choices that Congress must make …
Townhall.com: Washington, D.C. has been overtaken by “the arrogance of officialdom,” says NCPA President/CEO Allen West in a Townhall.com commentary.
While Social Security has received considerably more attention in recent years, Medicare is actually a much larger problem. It is growing at a faster rate and has an unfunded liability six times the size of Social Security. Medicare is on a spending path that is impossible to sustain. The program must deal not only with the demographic pressures Social Security faces, but also the soaring cost of medical care.
Private retirement accounts include employer-sponsored 401(k)s and 403(b)s, and privately-purchased plans like Individual Retirement Accounts (IRAs). Today, about 88 million people participate in one of these defined-contribution plans, with total assets of more than $4.5 trillion.
To confront America’s health care crisis, we do not need more spending, more regulations or more bureaucracy. We do need people, however, including every doctor and every patient. All 320 million Americans must be free to use their intelligence, their creativity and their innovative ability to make the changes needed to create access to low-cost, high-quality health care.
Social Security is the cornerstone of retirement security in the United States today. A third of Americans depend on the program for almost all their retirement income; without it, one-in-five would have no retirement income. But the program so many depend on simply cannot afford what it promises today’s workers and faces a shortfall of more than $13 trillion over the next 75 years. Reforms are desperately needed.
Forbes: Convincing health plans that there is an alternative better than Obamacare is not easy, but not impossible, said NCPA Senior Fellow John R. Graham in a Forbes commentary.
Managed Healthcare Executive: Increasing regulations on drug plans could cost the 220 million Americans who get their medications through a managed care plan, warns NCPA Senior Fellow Devon Herrick in a Managed Healthcare Executive article.
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NCPA: Increasing unnecessary regulations on drug plans could inflict higher costs on the 220 million Americans who get their medications through a managed drug plan, according to a new report by National Center for Policy Analysis Senior Fellow Devon Herrick.
Thomas A. Hemphill is a professor of strategy, innovation and public policy in the School of Management, University of Michigan-Flint. Dr. Hemphill teaches in the areas of business and society, …
Compared to hospital and physician care, drug therapy is by far the most cost-effective way to treat most diseases and health conditions. Americans spend twice as much for physician care and three times as much on hospital care as they do for drugs. And drug therapy often eliminates, lessens or delays the need for more invasive treatments such as surgery or inpatient care.
Clinical Oncology News: The Medicare “doc fix” is a poor replacement to the Sustainable Growth Rate that breaks the promise of fiscal responsibility Congress made to America, said Graham in a Clinical Oncology News article.
Ft. Worth Star-Telegram: New business investments in Texas would increase by over $3 billion if the margin tax were repealed, according to NCPA research cited in a Ft. Worth Star-Telegram op-ed.
Forbes: The Medicare “doc fix” offers little reward, but lots of risk to physicians and taxpayers alike, cautions NCPA Senior Fellow John R. Graham in a Forbes commentary.
Dallas Morning News: STEM subjects set our students up for success, says NCPA Senior Research Fellow Lloyd Bentsen IV in a Dallas Morning News commentary.
Fierce Healthcare: The cost and scope of the SGR repeal bill signifies that Congress has abandoned budget neutrality, according to a National Center for Policy Analysis report featured in a Fierce Healthcare article.
On March 26, an overwhelming bipartisan majority in the House of Representatives voted for the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act (MACRA). Secretly negotiated between Republican and Democratic leaders, this bill is the so-called Medicare “doc fix,” a prize that has been chased for many years but never caught by politicians eager to break out of the fiscal discipline a previous Congress imposed on them.
Orange County Register: An Orange County Register commentary quotes NCPA Senior Fellow Pam Villarreal’s warning that, if dividends were taxed at the an ordinary income tax rate, couple’s effective tax rate would skyrocket.
Forbes: The public debate about the Fed raising rates does the public little good, says NCPA Distinguished Fellow Bob McTeer in a Forbes commentary.