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Commentary
The Medicaid Work Requirement’s Gambling Loophole
…does not necessarily apply to AGI for purposes of federal taxation. Bryan Camp, a law professor at Texas Tech University, argues that revised language in the One Big Beautiful Bill…
Blog Post
Welfare Reform and Its Discontents
This is an edited version of Scott’s recent testimony before the Work & Welfare Subcommittee of the House Ways & Means Committee. In early 1995, the forerunner to this subcommittee…
Blog Post
Refocusing the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation on Achieving Deep Cost Reductions
…early targets to explore: Bryan Dowd and Anthony T. LoSasso argue for allowing those accountable care organizations (ACOs) with proven cost-cutting records to offer to Medicare beneficiaries discounted cost-sharing, premium…
Commentary
Assessing Duplicative Federal Benefit Programs and Preventing Abuse
…Health Insurance Program Consolidated Health Centers Breast/Cervical Cancer Early Detection Indian Health Service Family Planning Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program Transitional Cash and Medical Services for Refugees State Grants and Demonstrations…
Commentary
The Policy Lessons from Minnesota’s Massive Welfare Fraud
…had a staggering 36 percent improper payment rate. But the scandal-plagued Minnesota programs originated well before the pandemic. Ryan Thorpe and Christopher Rufo report the Feeding our Future program was…
Op-Ed
When It Comes to Fraud, Even American Tolerance Has Its Limits
Recent reporting, first by Christopher Rufo and Ryan Thorpe at the Manhattan Institute, and later by The New York Times and other news organizations, revealed a number of schemes by…
Op-Ed
Can School Reform Be Bipartisan Again?
…play a bigger role, plus perhaps teacher organizations that splinter off from the teachers’ unions, like the one Ryan Walters now runs. Rick: You’ve been at this a long time. If you had…
Op-Ed
A Tax-Reform Alternative to Trump’s Tariffs
The Supreme Court will hear arguments next month about the legality of President Trump’s use of the International Emergency Economic Powers Act to impose tariffs on nearly all imports to…
Op-Ed
Did ‘China Shock’ Throw Millions of Americans Out of Work?
In a Wall Street Journal op-ed Monday, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent claimed that “3.7 million Americans lost their jobs” due to the “China Shock”—the increased import competition occurring after China was granted membership…
Op-Ed
The Looming Debt Crisis, the Trump Tax Cuts, and Medicaid
…In a series of budget proposals spanning several years, Ryan proposed deficit reduction mainly through reductions in entitlement spending, including specific reforms to social security, Medicare, and Medicaid. Many Democrats castigated Ryan…
Op-Ed
Progressives Are Starting to Come Around on the Importance of Marriage and Fatherhood
…clearly dissatisfied with the male status quo has forced some otherwise progressive thinkers to admit something’s changing. Recently on “Real Time with Bill Maher,” former Congressman Tim Ryan, a Democrat…
Op-Ed
Stop the insanity. Our national debt now tops $35 trillion…
America’s political leaders have a spending problem. They know entitlement programs feature benefit promises far exceeding their tax base, but have done nothing to make them sound. Meanwhile, both parties demand…