FOX Business.com: NCPA Senior Fellow Devon Herrick is more concerned with “who is paying,” and if they will continue to pay their premiums, rather than overall ObamaCare enrollment numbers, reports a FOXBusiness.com article.
Commentary: The slowdown of the rise in health care costs is due to Health Savings Accounts and Health Reimbursement Arrangements, not ObamaCare, says NCPA President John Goodman in a Commentary post.
President Obama tells us that “health care costs are growing at the slowest rate in 50 years.” He and members of his administration attribute that trend to the Affordable Care Act. But ObamaCare is just taking effect this year, while the slowdown has been underway over a decade. [See Figure I.]
Psychology Today: Economist Paul Krugman is attempting to pull a “mulligan” with his latest post endorsing a CBO report estimating that ObamaCare will reduce the labor supply, says NCPA President John Goodman in a piece for Psychology Today.
Credit.com: If you sacrifice saving to improve credit scores, your stability will be short-lived, says a new blog post at Credit.com focused on the findings of the NCPA study on senior spending. The study found that seniors are spending more on debt and saving less than in years past.
Spectrem’s Millionaire Corner: Seniors are driving longer, spending more on hobbies, and racking up more debt than before, according to a Spectrem’s Millionaire Corner post. The post examines findings from the NCPA study on debt and senior spending.
USA Today: Americans are entering retirement with too much debt and too much consumption spending when they should be saving more, says NCPA Senior Fellow Pam Villarreal, whose new report was featured in USA Today.
The Weekly Standard: Quoting NCPA President John Goodman, Arthur Herman says that attempting to lower health care costs by having “buyers of care telling the providers how to practice medicine” and redistributing or rationing care is not an effective solution in a piece for The Weekly Standard.
A San Francisco-based think tank has proven the obvious: If disadvantaged kids are orphaned by their living but irresponsible or abusive parents, then moved from one foster-care placement to the next, they will fall behind in school and develop a substantial achievement gap compared to their peers from stable homes.
Hundreds of thousands of children enter the foster care system each year. Most are reunited with family members, but many children spend years in the system. Thousands of 18 year olds age out of foster care each year. A 1997 NCPA report found that many children eligible for adoption stayed in the system longer than necessary. In recent decades, the federal government has spent billions of dollars trying to improve the accuracy of foster care reporting systems and on adoption subsidies, but many adoptable children remain in foster care.
FOX News: America’s Newsroom (FOX News) featured the prepared testimony of NCPA President John Goodman in their coverage of the House Government Reform and Oversight Committee’s hearing on risk corridors. Goodman reiterated that only those with serious incentives, i.e. those with the highest medical claims, were persistent enough to navigate the ObamaCare website.
Forbes: There is no silver lining to the expected insurance premium increases in 2015, cautions NCPA Distinguished Fellow Bob McTeer in a piece for Forbes. Health insurance is a necessity, says McTeer, and increased spending on it will depress other spending.
NCPA Senior Fellow Devon Herrick’s testimony on the Affordable Care Act’s Consumer Operated and Oriented Plan (CO-OP) before the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Subcommittee on Energy Policy, Health Care and Entitlements and the Subcommittee on Economic Growth, Job Creation and Regulatory Affairs.
John Goodman’s testimony before theHouse Government Reform and Oversight Committee regarding Risk Corridors in the Affordable Care Act.
Psychology Today: Young people may be better off paying for health care on their own, says NCPA President John Goodman in a Psychology Today editorial.
As the senior manager of multimedia, Julian over sees all the NCPA’s in –house production and acquisition of digital video and audio of NCPA experts. In addition, he also records all of the NCPA’s major events, and manages the YouTube channel and it’s content.
Sr. Director of Communications Caytie Daniell is responsible for raising awareness of the NCPA’s research, experts, blogs and events with news and social media. Caytie keeps the NCPA on the …
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Long Island Newsday: American health should be developed within free-market principles, says Lane Filler in a Long Island Newsday editorial. Citing an NCPA study, Filler says that costs will go down as competition is encouraged.
Washington Examiner: The ACA’s provision for federal subsidies over the next three years “puts taxpayers at risk for the cost of serious mistakes in the design of the exchanges,” said NCPA President John Goodman in a Washington Examiner article. Goodman, along with Sen. Marco Rubio, testified before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee on February 5th regarding ObamaCare’s risk corridors.
NCPA: Workers at all ages could be better off from smaller Social Security benefits rather than higher payroll taxes, according to a new study from the National Center for Policy Analysis.
Forbes: The sharp decline in federal government consumption and investment and the increase in net exports caught the attention of NCPA Distinguished Fellow Bob McTeer. In a piece for Forbes, McTeer says he is pleased by the shift, even if it isn’t getting much attention.
Congress is once again considering changes in 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.
The Wall Street Journal’s Market Watch: Retiring in a low-tax state may not save you money if you still have mortgage debt, says NCPA Senior Fellow Pamela Villarreal in an article featuring her work at The Wall Street Journal’s Market Watch. More than half of people about to retire still carry mortgage debt, and many will carry it with them years into retirement.