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The House GOP Plays It Safe on Health Care
House Republican leaders have assembled a health care bill with familiar provisions as a counter to the Democrats’ push to extend premium subsidies for Affordable Care Act (ACA) insurance enrollment….
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Republicans Should Refine and Improve the Crapo-Cassidy Health Savings Account Proposal
Congressional Republicans have struggled for weeks to counter the Democratic push for an extension beyond 2025 of enhanced Affordable Care Act (ACA) premium subsidies. They should consider the plan developed by Senators…
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The China Shock, Revisited (Again)
China’s economic ascent is likely remembered by many Americans as a story of shuttered factories and hollowed-out towns. Oh, and an anxious turn in U.S. politics that continues today. But…
Op-Ed
How Not to Redefine Poverty
…Kevin Corinth, James Elwell, and Jeff Larrimore (ungated version here). These authors use a complete after-tax income measure, set the poverty line so that 19.5 percent of the population is poor…
Blog Post
On Health Care, the GOP Needs to Take Up First Principles
It is not surprising that Republicans are struggling to agree on whether to extend expiring subsidies for health insurance enrollment. For a decade, the party has avoided getting behind a…
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Congress Should Look to Employer Health Coverage to Help Low-Wage Workers
For the first time since the Affordable Care Act (ACA) was enacted more than 15 years ago, political developments are pushing congressional Democrats into direct negotiations with the GOP over…
Multimedia
Entitlement Reform: A Problem We Can No Longer Avoid
…pay only 75% of promised benefits. Medicare faces a similar reckoning by 2033. Yet despite decades of warnings, neither political party has mustered the will to enact meaningful reforms. James…
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The Battle for Usable Pricing in Health Care Is On-Going
Two recent publications make it clear that the problem of irrational pricing in health care is far from resolved despite the current suite of transparency requirements. First, the Purchaser Business…
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Housing Affordability? Build, Baby, Build
Plain and simple (if not so easy politically): The cure for America’s housing crisis isn’t government subsidies or corporate scapegoats. It’s more homes. And this “supply and demand” solution isn’t…
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The Megabill’s Rural Health Transformation (RHT) Program
As Republicans in Congress raced to approve their tax-and-spending-program megabill before July 4th, the financial viability of the nation’s rural hospitals emerged as a potential obstacle to final passage. The GOP’s solution—a…
Op-Ed
Health Care Subsidies Are a Political Shortcut, Not a Lasting Policy Solution
With the GOP tax-and-spending megabill enacted into law, the next politically charged health care debate is heating up. Congress must decide relatively soon whether to extend the enhanced premium credits for…
Article
Time to Build … New US Cities
My fellow pro-growth/progress/abundance Up Wingers, It’s unfortunate: America has forgotten how to build cities, or maybe it just lost interest. The last major one was Irvine, California, incorporated back in…