News
National Journal | Ryan to Challenge Obama on Medicare at AARP
Republican vice presidential nominee Paul Ryan, whose plans for Medicare are under attack by President Obama and other Democrats, will promise an honest conversation on entitlements in a speech at an AARP conference on Friday in New Orleans, just after Obama addresses the group by satellite.
Econ Comments & Analysis
CRS | Laws Affecting the Federal Employees Health Benefits Program (FEHBP)
The Federal Employees Health Benefits Program (FEHBP) has been in existence for over 50 years. Since its creation, it has provided private health insurance coverage to federal employees, annuitants, and their dependents.
NBER | Saving Teens: Using a Policy Discontinuity to Estimate the Effects of Medicaid Eligibility
This paper uses a policy discontinuity to identify the immediate and long-term effects of public health insurance coverage during childhood. Our identification strategy exploits a unique feature of several early Medicaid expansions that extended eligibility only to children born after September 30, 1983.
Blogs
FOX Business | CBO: Health-Law Tax to Hit 50% More Than Estimated
The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office now says six million people will have to pay the individual mandate tax at a higher estimated cost of $6.9 billion to $8 billion, once ObamaCare rolls out in its entirety in 2016.
