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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
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…
Op-Ed
Why Is Race Still a Factor in Adoption?
…tones, but Tucker is far more brazen. Ryan Hanlon, the president of the National Council for Adoption, notes that “there is an important role for adoption agencies to ensure pre-adoptive…
Book
Doing Right by Kids: Leveraging Social Capital and Innovation to Increase Opportunity
…must. Chapters Available for Download Introduction: SCOTT WINSHIP, YUVAL LEVIN, AND RYAN STREETER Chapter 1: “Promoting Upward Mobility from the Starting Gate,” CHESTER E. FINN JR. Chapter 2: “Promoting Innovation…
Report
How States and Communities Can Strengthen Marriages
Family is the greatest source of social capital, providing the setting in which people grow, develop, and anchor their lives. Stable and healthy marriages are at the foundation of strong…