Sessions/Cassidy Health Plan Particulars
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ISSUES
Obamacare Problems Solved
The Sessions/Cassidy Health Plan Solves Them by Streamlining and Minimizing the Role of Government
Why Do Some People Earn More Than Others?
Most discussions of income inequality implicitly assume that individual preferences have virtually no effect on the outcome. In fact, differences in preferences may be the most important determinant of the distribution of income.
Getting the Most Out of Social Security: New Edition
New Social Security laws were passed last fall that will make major changes to your ability to claim benefits. These changes were never explained or even mentioned before the new laws were passed.
How a Little Common Sense Could Save Billions in Government Health Care Spending
Imagine that you could make a change in an entitlement program that reduces the cost to the taxpayers and enhances the value of the program for the beneficiaries – at the same time. Who could possible object to that?
Saving: Medicare Is Worth More Than Social Security For Young Workers
By the time today’s young workers retire, Medicare will spend more on them than they get from Social Security and the two programs combined will replace more than 100 percent of their pre-retirement wages.
Kotlikoff to the Washington Post: Lucrative Social Security Option About to Expire
The clock is ticking thanks to a decision Congress made last year to eliminate the strategy [which] … provided an advantage to married couples by allowing them to collect some cash while their own retirement benefits grew.
Roth Health Savings Accounts: What the World Needs Now
Health Alert. Here are four pieces of bad news: Even though (1) the Obamacare out-of-pocket limits are outrageously high, (2) 80 percent of exchange plans are incompatible with a Health Savings Account, (3) new regulations will virtually outlaw HSAs for the remaining 20 percent, and (4) the Obama administration has no clue about how to merge health savings with insurance, even if the desire were there.
Goodman to USA Today: Government Negotiating Drug Prices Won’t Save Any Money
“You can’t win in a negotiation….if the other side knows there’s no way you can live without a drug,” said Goodman. That was the conclusion of a careful study by the Congressional Budget Office.
Goodman at Hillsdale College Symposium
“It’s been six years, but finally the Republicans in Congress appear to have proposed a credible alternative to ObamaCare,” John Goodman told supporters of Hillsdale College at the Waldorf Astoria in New York City.