One thing missing from the recent Republican efforts to reform Obamacare is what George H.W. Bush called “the vision thing.” What would a Republican health care system look like? How would it differ from the Obamacare exchanges the Democrats have created?
Conventional banking has two ingredients that make financial collapse inevitable — leverage and opacity. Thanks to lobbying by the big banks, Dodd-Frank, the Vickers Report and other recent banking regulations do precious little to change this lethal brew.
The Goodman Institute for Public Policy Research is doing things that are not being done by any other organization. We are supplying Congress, the media and the public policy community with the very best advice the scholarly world has to offer on health reform, tax reform and entitlement reform.
For most of the last seven years, Republicans thought it would be easy. Everyone could see that Obamacare was a mess. It has so many problems it would take forever to list them. Even Bill Clinton said the system is “crazy.” There are so many victims and so many horror stories, it’s almost impossible to think of a system that could be worse.
Frank and Sharon Sawyer are an entirely made-up 70-year-old retired couple living in Connecticut. Their financial situation looks pretty good, but it’s actually pretty bad. I’m going to see if I can help them with some money magic.
A big problem with the health bill currently before the Senate is that very few low-income people would purchase any plan, according to the Congressional Budget Office.
Tuesday’s election in Georgia’s 6th Congressional District has important lessons for both parties.
The Democrat started out attacking Donald Trump and then went on to other messages.
Goodman Institute is hosting a Capitol Hill briefing on the House Republican tax plan with Chairman Kevin Brady, and Boston University economist Laurence Kotlikoff.
Are you 62 or over, house poor and barely making ends meet? If so, the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) claims to have the answer. It’s called a Home Equity Conversion Mortgage, or HECM. HUD regulates HECMs, or at least it says it does.
Probably not. Here’s why: virtually every conservative health policy analyst advising Republican candidates and Republican office holders believes in the same model Barack Obama believes in.