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Chairman Smith Is Right About the Need for a Site-Neutral Policy in Medicare
…that is closest to the patients to determine how to allocate the available resources, which by necessity must be limited, in a manner that maximizes the health benefits for patients….
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Refocusing the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation on Achieving Deep Cost Reductions
…should make maximum use of a powerful existing tool—the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation, or CMMI—to cut health entitlement expenditures. In 1980, combined federal spending on Medicare and Medicaid was…
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Tariffs Cannot Fully Replace the Income Tax
…taxable imports by 95 percent, leaving little for tariffs to tax. Even a tariff calibrated to maximize revenue would still fall short. At an elasticity of -2.5, the revenue-maximizing effective…
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Improving Medicare Program Integrity
…has directed CMS to administer Medicare’s traditional fee-for-service (FFS) option as an open network, with patients given maximum freedom to choose their providers. This design allows nearly all appropriately credentialed…
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AI Has Come for K–12 Education
…AI Education Project will argue for the motion “Maximizing School Improvement by 2035 Means Integrating AI into Classrooms Today” while Amplify’s Dan Meyer and Jake Tawney of Great Hearts Academies…
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The Real Math of Survival?
…again. Let’s try and recreate his total, using the 2023 data for married-couple parents with no child age 6 or older. That will maximize the share of spending going to…
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AI’s Uncertain Cost Effects in Health Care
…objectives. But there are two sides to the health care negotiating table, and the other side—hospitals, physician practices, and publicly-subsidized insurance plans looking to maximize their revenue—can leverage AI too….
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SNAP Prioritizes Nutrition in New Administration
…with no other income can receive a maximum benefit of $975 per month. Currently, participants can purchase any food or beverage for home consumption using SNAP benefits, with the exception of alcohol,…
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Is AI Making Your Gastroenterologist Stupid? Probably Not.
…may change how they allocate their attention and effort—which is exactly what should happen if we want to maximize limited human capital, improve efficiency, and increase positive outcomes. The challenge,…
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Common-Sense SNAP Reforms Included in House Agriculture Reconciliation Proposal
…increasing benefit levels for inflation. The Thrifty Food Plan sets maximum SNAP benefit levels, intending to represent the cost of a “nutritious, practical, cost-effective diet” for home consumption. President Biden’s…
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Turn Public Service Loan Forgiveness into a State Block Grant
…have actively encouraged students to maximize their borrowing in order to squeeze more money out of PSLF. Moreover, the heavy subsidy PSLF offers to public-service-oriented fields enables states to add or maintain…
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The Family First Act Would Expand Net Income Tax Refunds to Higher Income Families
…Tax Credit to $4,200 for children aged to 5 and $3,000 for children aged 6 to 17, compared to the current $2,000 maximum for all eligible children. It would also…