Mental Health Parity Law Takes Wrong Approach
Originally published in Health Care News, The Heartland Institute, February 2009. It was easy to overlook in the midst of a historic financial crisis, but buried in the middle of the …
Originally published in Health Care News, The Heartland Institute, February 2009. It was easy to overlook in the midst of a historic financial crisis, but buried in the middle of the …
Originally published in Health Care News, Heartland Institute, March 2009. The nursing home industry is one of the most regulated industries in the country. It’s also dominated by government as …
Originally published in Health Care News, Heartland Institute, May 2009. The worst idea candidate Barack Obama had during the presidential campaign was his pledge to finance health care reform with …
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A layoff does not have to involve losing your health coverage. Although there is no need to panic, you should not put off taking action. Here are 10 options to consider as soon as possible after getting pink-slipped.
Dr. Herrick questions the practice of holding infant DNA in registries
Devon Herrick on one of the fastest growing trends in health care – concierge medicine
The Dallas Morning News reports on the upcoming NCPA Economic Policy Forum and Author Series with author and Cato Institute Senior Fellow Randal O'Toole.
John C. Goodman looks back over 10 years of health care reform during the 20th anniversary of KERA's McCuistion Show.
John Goodman is interviewed for the latest Fortune on the divergent state pricing of individual health insurance.
John Goodman is interviewed for the latest Fortune on the divergent state pricing of individual health insurance.
NCPA Senior Policy Analyst, Pamela Villarreal discusses in the Examiner.com, the implications of President Obama's plan to increase long-term capital gains tax rates from 15 percent this year to 20 percent in 2011.
The new health care law will substantially increase the tax burden of high-income workers and small businesses over the next few years. Those tax increases could be piled on top of other tax increases on the labor and investment income of high-income earners. The tax hikes will reduce the capital stock and discourage small business job creation – the opposite of what is needed to grow the economy.
John Goodman, president and founder of the National Center for Policy Analysis, breaks down how seniors are impacted by the new health-care law.
In today's National Review, John Goodman examines how the major issues and language of health care reform have changed in the past year.
In today's National Review, John Goodman examines how the major issues and language of health care reform have changed in the past year.
In previous generations, many workers could expect to automatically receive a steady stream of retirement income from Social Security and a pension from their union or employer. Like Social Security, traditional defined benefit pension plans promised a monthly annuity for life. Along with personal savings, pensions and Social Security were the mainstays of retirement. Increasingly, however, American workers must make their own retirement investment decisions.
Senior Fellow John D. Merrifield is a Professor of Economics at the University of Texas at San Antonio, a position he has held since 1987. He is the author of four …
President Obama's finalized tougher gas mileage standards for new cars and trucks seems intent on pushing policies that will result in increased production of smaller, less safe cars, and that could bode ill for the auto industry.
President Obama's proposal to allow oil and gas drilling near Virginia's shorelines and in the eastern Gulf of Mexico should be his stumbling first step towards opening the nation's vast offshore reserves to oil and gas exploration and production, according to NCPA Senior Fellow, H. Sterling Burnett.
Health Care Policy Backgrounders are designed as briefing papers on health care policy issues for people with limited time and a need to know about health care policy issues such …
Restricted to two letter-size pages, a Health Care Brief Analysis summarizes some aspect or aspects of health care policy such as HSAs, health insurance reform, and retail medicine, presenting points …
A new NCPA study on Health Information Technology received attention from Federal Computer Week.
Proponents of health information technology (HIT) often claim that the United States lags behind other developed countries when it comes to the use of electronic medical records (EMRs), physician order entry systems and personal health records in clinics and hospitals. For example, only about 17 percent of doctors and 8 percent to 10 percent of U.S. hospitals use EMRs.