Making Ideas
Change the World
Creating jobs, liberating taxpayers,
empowering patients, and more…
What We Have Accomplished
Turning Ideas
into Public Policy
Health Savings Accounts
Because of the idea of Health Savings Accounts, more than 30 million people are managing some of their own health care dollars in accounts they own and control.
401(k) Plans
Because of automatic enrollment in diversified portfolios, 16 million employees are enjoying higher and safer returns.
Social Security
Because of another idea, 78 million baby boomers are able to work beyond age 65 without losing Social Security benefits.
Roth IRAs
Because of the idea of Roth IRAs, $265 billion in savings has been taxed once and will never be taxed again.
Recent Commentaries
What’s New
Social Security’s Massive Malfeasance
Lisa Rein, Alice Crites, and Jennifer Jenkins of The Washington Post have written an excellent exposé of Social Security's treatment of the disabled and poor, including its use of archaic job-availability lists to deny benefits to...
Are US retirees foregoing large sums of Social Security benefits?
Substantial research indicates that most Americans are retiring with far too few resources to finance their desired standard-of-living in old age. Typical retiree savings, in fact, can cover only a few years of median U.S....
Health Care in the Senate Next Year
This Senate committee will be profoundly at divided on the future of health care. GETTY Next year the U.S. Senate committee that deals with health policy will be chaired by a Democrat who shares two major goals with the ranking Republican...
Can There Be Too Many Trees?
Drought-resistant trees are replacing grasslands around the world, and, specifically in the western United States. This is a problem? Yes, says Brianna Randall in Wired. "According to University of Montana researcher Scott Morford,...
Economic Freedom IS good for the environment
Yes, data from the Yale Center for Environmental Law & Policy and the Fraser Institute's Economic Freedom of the World Index send a resounding message: Economic freedom brings about environmental protection. Why? Because economic...
What Can We Learn from the Election?
The polls told us that 85 percent of the population thought the country was headed in the wrong direction. Yet, voters went out and reelected almost all the incumbents. Pennsylvania voters even reelected a state representative who...
Why Do Progressives Support Democrats? Part II
Previously, I argued that Republican politicians and right-of-center thinkers have given us the most progressive tax and transfer system in the world. Here are a few more examples of progressive ideas from the right. School...
Why Do Progressives Support Democrats? Part I
Now that the election is almost over, it’s time to ask why people vote as they do. The words “progressive” and “Democrat” have become virtually synonymous in modern parlance. But did you know that the most important progressive reform...
Hidden Traps in the IRA Bill’s Drug Provisions
Coauthored by Linda Gorman. Thanks to the recently passed Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), premiums for Medicare Part D outpatient drug plans will start to rise over the next few years. The increase will be 6 percent a year, according to...
What I Bet You Don’t Know About Poverty, Inequality And The Role Of Government
Here are five surprising facts: The U.S. welfare state has almost eliminated poverty in this country.Over the last 75 years, income inequality has actually gone down, not up.Since the end of World War II, income has steadily risen for...
Heartland Podcast: THE NEW YORK TIMES RUNS A “HIT PIECE” ON MEDICARE ADVANTAGE PLANS
Medicare has one privatized component. Many politicians and the corporate media want to destroy it.AnneMarie Schieber, Increasingly, the private component of Medicare, Medicare Advantage (MA), is coming under attack. The latest salvo was...
Texas Healthcare Road Show with Congresswoman Van Duyne
Visit the AFP Action Center to take action on issues like this one: https://americansforprosperity.actcen... Social Media: AFP https://www.facebook.com/fightback/ https://twitter.com/AFPhq https://www.instagram.com/americansfo... AFP...
Social Security’s Massive Malfeasance
Lisa Rein, Alice Crites, and Jennifer Jenkins of The Washington Post have written an excellent exposé of Social Security's treatment of the disabled and poor, including its use of archaic job-availability lists to deny benefits to...
Are US retirees foregoing large sums of Social Security benefits?
Substantial research indicates that most Americans are retiring with far too few resources to finance their desired standard-of-living in old age. Typical retiree savings, in fact, can cover only a few years of median U.S....
Health Care in the Senate Next Year
This Senate committee will be profoundly at divided on the future of health care. GETTY Next year the U.S. Senate committee that deals with health policy will be chaired by a Democrat who shares two major goals with the ranking Republican...
Can There Be Too Many Trees?
Drought-resistant trees are replacing grasslands around the world, and, specifically in the western United States. This is a problem? Yes, says Brianna Randall in Wired. "According to University of Montana researcher Scott Morford,...
Public Policy Research
Leveraging People,
Money and Ideas
Our Role in Tax Reform
Goodman Institute scholars Laurence Kotlikoff and Alan Auerbach were the intellectual source of the Ryan/Brady (“Better Way”) tax reform proposal. They are also the leading intellectual defenders of tax reform, drawing on the most sophisticated and accurate economic models that exist.
Our Role in Health Reform
We are witnessing a radical transformation of the U.S. health care system. Although health care is the most regulated market in our economy, we have recently witnessed massive deregulation — partly in response to the coronavirus threat. These changes were only possible because of three years of prior effort by the Trump administration. Many of the core ideas were pioneered by Goodman Institute health economists.
Health Care Briefing With Newt Gingrich
Former Congresswoman Nan Hayworth, Newt Gingrich and I discuss healthcare in the next election and beyond. Newt and I have a mutual admiration society that goes back many years. Newt has always been an outlier among Republican politicians when it comes to the topic of health care – aggressively searching for solutions instead of avoiding the subject.
Sessions/Cassidy Health Plan
- Abolishes the ObamaCare mandates.
- Repeals all of the anti-job provisions of ObamaCare
- Repeals thousands of pages of additional regulations.
- Deregulates and denationalizes the health insurance marketplace in every state.
- Offers all Americans a universal tax credit (similar to the child tax credit) for health insurance premiums and deposits to Health Savings Accounts.
- Lets employees earn higher wages by eliminating waste in their health plans.
New Partnership: Health Care News
The Goodman Institute for Public Policy has agreed to partner with Heartland to ensure the newspaper’s survival going forward. This new partnership could not have come at a better time. Polls consistently show that healthcare is the number one issue with voters.
The Environmental Blog
This Goodman Institute inspired blog is about appreciating the environment and protecting it using the tools of economics. Your blog manager is Jane Shaw Stroup, a former senior fellow of the Property and Environment Research Center.
The Health Blog
For many years, our health care blog was the only free enterprise health policy blog on the internet. Then, when the NCPA closed its doors, the health blog stopped as well.
During this five-year hiatus no one else has come forward to claim the space. So, my colleagues and I have decided to restart the blog in connection with the Goodman Institute. We invite you and others to use this forum to share your views.
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