Re: Rob Portman’s Field of Dreams
This week, Senator Rob Portman took to the pages of the Wall Street Journal and made a compelling case that the United States faces a debt challenge that, if left ...
Jack Lew’s Letter to Congress on Tax Inversions, Edited for Facts and Clarity
Treasury Secretary Jack Lew waded into the “policy” discussion on inversions with a letter to Ways and Means Chairman Dave Camp (and other tax-writing leadership on the Hill). I found ...
Six Questions about Obama’s Student-Loan Proposal
The president will announce today executive actions to reduce the repayment obligations of student-loan borrowers. According to the New York Times:
Mr. Obama’s main action will be to expand on a 2010 law that ...
1 Million Obamacare Payment Errors — Who Could Have Seen This Coming?
The Washington Post reports that Obamacare may be suffering from a million cases of payment errors, with hundreds of thousands of overpayments. This is another black mark for the health-care law. The Post ...
March Jobs Are like D.C. Weather: It Runs Hot and Cold
Hopes that the March report would deliver blockbuster job creation were disappointed. But the news was not all bad. The top-line job growth — 192,000 — fell a bit below ...
Obama Provides More Political Insurance
Today the administration announced yet another (longer and broader) delay in the implementation of the Affordable Care Act, extending the political patch for President Obama’s broken “if you like your ...
The ACA, the CBO, and the 2 Million Jobs _____
There is absolutely no evidence, and every economist will tell you this, that there is any job-loss related to the Affordable Care Act. — Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, February 18, 2014
The ...
How CMS Is Trying to Wreck the Virtues of Medicare Part D
A new Obama-administration regulation would eliminate popular, low-premium drug plans enjoyed by roughly 14 million American seniors in Medicare’s Part D prescription-drug benefit. During this October’s “open enrollment” period for ...
Another Day, Another Delay
The administration added an umpteenth delay to the scheduled implementation of the Affordable Care Act (ACA). The original timelines of the ACA had the law’s major insurance-market reforms fully phased in ...
Eakinomics: Seven Deadly Budgetary Sins
Yesterday’s release of the Congressional Budget Office’s (CBO’s) Budget and Economic Outlook was no cause for celebration. True, the projected deficit for fiscal year 2014 (October 2013 to September 2014) ...