Category: News Release

A week after President Bush outlined ideas to help the unemployed survive while out of work and train for the available jobs in our changing labor market.

At a time when the United States and U.S.-backed international financial institutions are encouraging countries around the world to adopt free market economies, a new study examines how well states in the U.S. fare by that measure.

A key argument for adding a prescription drug benefit to Medicare is that insurers obtain significant price discounts not available to individual consumers who pay out-of-pocket.

The National Center for Policy Analysis (NCPA), one of the nation’s leading think tanks on entitlement issues, has warned that if Social Security is not reformed soon its unfunded liability will threaten the government’s ability to do anything else.

Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan gave an ominous diagnosis of the nation’s Social Security system and the impact it will have on the economy if it is not reformed, in a speech today to the Securities Industry Association.

Recent criticism of House-passed Medicare reform legislation championed by House Ways & Means Committee Chairman Bill Thomas (R-CA) has misrepresented Health Savings Accounts (HSAs) and the scholarly research relating to the accounts.

Prescription drug bills currently before a House-Senate conference committee would impose higher marginal tax rates on seniors with modest incomes than those faced even by the wealthiest Americans.

The nation’s leading think tank on health policy issues, examines an important and significant fact regarding the new Census Bureau numbers that showed an increase in the number of uninsured.

The National Center for Policy Analysis (NCPA) today launched a new Web site devoted to consumer-directed health insurance plans.

In conjunction with a bipartisan effort to reform federal prison industries (FPI), two former chief economists at the Department of Labor (DOL) in the Clinton and Bush administrations will address a Capitol Hill briefing tomorrow on the critical importance of inmate work programs and HR 1829, which is currently headed for a floor vote.

His Excellency Václav Klaus, President of the Czech Republic, is the featured speaker at a Distinguished Lecture Series dinner sponsored by the National Center for Policy Analysis (NCPA) and the Hatton W. Sumners Foundation in Dallas on September 22.

The National Center for Policy Analysis (NCPA), one of the nation's leading think tanks on entitlement issues, has warned that if Social Security is not reformed soon its unfunded liability will threaten the government's ability to do anything else.

More than two-thirds of business economists say consumer driven health insurance is either very important or extremely important in lowering health care costs and improving the quality of care.

Two former chief economists at the Department of Labor (DOL) in the Clinton and Bush administrations will address a Capitol Hill briefing tomorrow on the critical importance of inmate work programs and HR 1829, which is currently headed for a floor vote.

As Congress this week debates whether to allow re-importation of drugs from other countries, a report released today by the National Center for Policy Analysis (NCPA) shows that seniors can save as much if not more on prescription drug costs just by becoming smarter shoppers.

Contrary to a report on prescription drug prices released today by Families USA, seniors and other patients can lower the cost of prescription drugs by as much as 90 percent just by using shopping techniques that are commonplace in any market other than health care.

The National Center for Policy Analysis (NCPA) and the National Black Chamber of Commerce (NBCC) have joined forces to educate a wider audience about the crisis facing Social Security and the benefits of investment-based reform.

As Congress and many state legislatures debate ways to lower the cost of prescription drugs, a new study from the National Center for Policy Analysis (NCPA) shows that patients can save more than 90 percent on some of the most common drug therapies by becoming smarter, more aggressive shoppers.

The U.S. House of Representatives today has been debating a bill to allow some Association Health Plans to bypass costly state regulations, like mandated benefits.

As the baby boom generation begins to retire, the cost of maintaining Medicare and Social Security will begin to soar.

Most working couples lose half or more of their second income in taxes and lost government benefits.

Schools in Texas differ widely in their ability to teach students.

The report found that differences within schools are almost as great as the differences among schools.

Schools in the Fort Worth area differ widely in their ability to teach students.