NCPA: Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Glenn Greenwald, the lawyer and author who interviewed National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden and launched an international debate over free speech and national security, will speak at an April 3rd Irving, TX luncheon sponsored by the National Center for Policy Analysis and the Hatton W. Sumners Foundation.
President & CEO Allen B. West gave a presentation on the Provocative Politics or Guardianof the Republic to the Republican Voters from Washoe County in Reno, NV
Kaiser Health News: The federal government should take a lesson from the $30 billion spent on enticing medical providers to enroll in electronic records before attempting the same thing with the mental health community, says NCPA Senior Fellow John R. Graham in a Kaiser Health News article.
President & CEO Allen B. West gave a presentation on Conservative movement within to the Members of the Preston Center Rotary Club in Dallas, TX
NCPA: Expanding Health Savings Account (HSA) eligibility to all employees would help them more effectively replace income lost due to illness than mandating seven days of paid sick leave, says NCPA Senior Fellow Devon Herrick in a new report.
President Obama recently proposed requiring employers to pay sick leave to the estimated 43 million American workers who not receive this benefit. Many of these workers cannot afford unpaid sick days to for an illness or to care for a sick child.
Bloomberg Business: Baby boomers are sacrificing their retirement to support their adult kids, says NCPA Senior Fellow Pam Villarreal in a Bloomberg Business article.
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review: Congress must prepare for the possibility that the Supreme Court will strike down subsidies, says NCPA Senior Fellow John R. Graham in a Pittsburgh Tribune-Review article.
One News Now: California’s plastic bag ban would be laughable if it wasn’t actually policy, says NCPA Senior Fellow Pam Villarreal in a One News Now article.
The Washington Times: The United States must develop a fiscally responsible, 21st century fighting force in order to vanquish the enemy, says NCPA President/CEO Allen West in a Washington Times commentary.
NCPA: Increasing the capital gains tax would hurt earners at all income levels, according to a new report by National Center for Policy Analysis Senior Fellow Pam Villarreal.
Taxing the nonwage income of the wealthy is politically popular because it is assumed few people will be affected. President Obama’s 2016 budget proposes an increase in the capital gains tax to 28 percent for couples earning $500,000 or more.
Life Health Pro: The verdict in King v. Burwell could force Congress to make some big decisions regarding the face of the Affordable Care Act, according to NCPA experts cited in a LifeHealth Pro article.
The rate of growth of health spending remains moderate, but one area where prices appear to be increasing faster than in recent years is brand-name prescription drugs.1 Many blockbuster drugs lost their patents by 2012 and many people looked forward to a future when we could all get a month’s-long supply of generic drugs for $4. It did not quite work out that way.
FierceEMR: The ONC should step back and let market forces control health IT, say NCPA experts cited in a FierceEMR article.