Psychology Today: Limiting the tax exclusion was the most powerful level the president had to control the costs of private insurance and President Obama showed leadership in endorsing the new policy, says NCPA President John Goodman in a Psychology Today commentary.
National Review Online: NCPA President John C Goodman’s free market alternative to ObamaCare is featured in the latest issue of National Review. Goodman’s proposed reforms include a universal tax credit for health insurance, a safety contribution for every unclaimed credit, more flexible Health Savings Accounts, and a new type of insurance to better protect those with pre-existing conditions.
Yahoo! Finance: Ditch your mortgage and credit card debt before retirement, says a U.S. News and World Report article at Yahoo! Finance, citing NCPA reports.
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.
The Wall Street Journal: Global warming is back. Not actual global warming, as the decade-long trend of little to no increase in temperatures continues. But the topic of global warming is back in the news. From Secretary of State John Kerry’s recent climate comments in Jakarta to the White House’s 2014 “year of action” plan on carbon emissions, global warming has garnered more ink and pixels than we’ve seen in a while.
The Fiscal Times: Big reform will be needed to replace our retirement system, but it is Personal Savings Accounts, not the myRA, that will give the system the boost it needs, say NCPA Senior Fellow and Director of the Tax Analysis Center Laurence Kotlikoff in a piece for The Fiscal Times.
Forbes: Nearly 14 million seniors stand to lose their current drug plans if new regulations proposed by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services go into effect, says NCPA President John Goodman in a Forbes op-ed.
Psychology Today: The combination of penalties and implicit taxes in the Affordable Care will cause the labor market to suffer, says NCPA President John Goodman in a Psychology Today commentary.
FOX News: Despite the assurances of Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, NCPA President John C Goodman predicts that ObamaCare will cause job losses across the nation.
The Affordable Care Act (ACA) will have a negative impact on seniors. A portion of ACA funding is derived by cutting $716 billion from the Medicare program over the next decade — which could reduce seniors’ access to care. One provision includes a 25 percent fee reduction for physicians who treat Medicare enrollees.
Chairman Pitts and members of the committee, I am Devon Herrick, Senior Fellow with the National Center for Policy Analysis. We are a nonprofit, nonpartisan public policy research organization dedicated to developing and promoting private alternatives to government regulation and control, solving problems by relying on the strength of the competitive, entrepreneurial private sector. We welcome the opportunity to share our views and research findings on the current state of Medicare drug plans.
HealthBlawg: Goodman’s plan for achieving affordable access to health care was mentioned in the Health Wonk Review at the HealthBlawg.
FOXBusiness.com: Encouraging private enterprise is the key to solving the jobs problem, not government intervention, said NCPA Senior Fellow David Ranson in a FOXBusiness.com piece.