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The broadened joint employer standard impacts 44 percent of private sector employees
The president’s proposed tariffs could increase nationwide consumer costs by nearly $40 billion annually.
Why are opioid deaths still rising? AAF’s Director of Labor Market Policy Ben Gitis parses the data on the kinds of opioids driving opioid fatalities in the United States.
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) continued their efforts to drive down drug costs by proposing several more changes to Medicare Advantage (MA) and Part D.
January 17, 2019
The Daily Dish
Douglas Holtz-Eakin
Eakinomics: Remember the Export-Import Bank? Remember the Export-Import Bank (Ex-Im), which is due to be re-authorized in September 2019? Ex-Im is…
January 16, 2019
Eakinomics: Sometimes at Think Tanks, You Think At its inception, Medicare was a fee-for-service health system. Seniors went to doctors (and hospitals…
January 15, 2019
Research
Douglas Holtz-Eakin, Christopher Holt, Tara O'Neill Hayes, Laura Skopec, Bowen Garrett, Stephen Zuckerman
Executive Summary The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has been collecting encounter data from Medicare Advantage (MA) plans since 2012…
Insight
Thomas Wade
Executive Summary Congress reauthorized the Export-Import Bank in 2015, but since then the bank has faced limitations on its operations and is not…
Eakinomics: Reciprocal Trade Act Media reports indicate that the Trump Administration is attempting to garner support for its draft legislation entitled…
January 14, 2019
Week in Regulation
Dan Goldbeck
As of this past weekend, the current partial government shutdown set the record for the longest shutdown in U.S. history. With many agencies still shuttered…
Eakinomics: Regulation and Drug Prices Nearly everyone expects Congress to do “something on drug prices” this year, although exactly what is far…
January 11, 2019
Weekly Checkup
Christopher Holt
The ongoing partial shutdown of the federal government doesn’t affect most federal health programs, because the bulk of the government’s health care…
Eakinomics: Funding the Wall — A Lesson in Opportunity Costs Economists are fond of stressing that the real cost of any purchase or activity is the…
January 10, 2019
Gordon Gray, Ariane Martin
President Trump appears to be increasingly—which is to say, “maybe, definitely”—inclined to invoke a national emergency to build a $5.7 billion…
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Doug Holtz-Eakin discusses the myriad economic and fiscal challenges of a single payer system on Fox Business.
Will Rinehart
Executive Summary Countries and firms across the globe are racing to capitalize on artificial intelligence (AI). To ensure that the United States can…
Solution
The AI race is on. Countries, entrepreneurs, and firms across the globe are jockeying to capitalize on artificial intelligence (AI). While it has received…
Eakinomics: Artificial Intelligence and Regulation Artificial Intelligence (AI) is one of those buzzwords that gets tossed around a lot, raising fears…
January 9, 2019
President Trump took to the airwaves last evening to make the national security case for a wall on the southern border. Who would pay for such a wall?…
Ben Gitis
Why are opioid deaths still rising? AAF’s Director of Labor Market Policy Ben Gitis parses the data on the kinds of opioids driving opioid fatalities…
January 8, 2019
Jacqueline Varas
President Trump argues that Mexico will pay for a wall on the southern border—if indirectly—through the new U.S.-Mexico-Canada Trade Agreement (USMCA).…
Today AAF’s Dan Bosch and Dan Goldbeck published a nice retrospective of federal regulatory activity in calendar 2018. The highlight? For the first…
Dan Bosch, Dan Goldbeck
INTRODUCTION For the first time since the American Action Forum (AAF) began tracking final regulations published in the Federal Register (going back…
January 7, 2019
Comments for the Record
Tara O'Neill Hayes
The solution that has been proposed here is not likely to achieve its objective, and in fact, could result in significant undesirable repercussions.
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January 7, 2019
Comments for the Record
Comments To CMS On Proposed International Pricing Index for Medicare Part B Drugs
Tara O'Neill Hayes
The solution that has been proposed here is not likely to achieve its objective, and in fact, could result in significant undesirable repercussions.