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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
Health Reforms for Voters
BY JOHN C. GOODMAN AND DEAN CLANCY. Health care consistently ranks near the top of American voters’ list of concerns and is likely to remain there. In fact, in Americans for Prosperity’s latest health care poll, conducted on June 22by...
Medicare Prescription Drugs: A Case Study In Government Failure
The sick who need drugs are overcharged while the relatively healthy premium payers are ... [+]GETTY Bernie Sanders and other socialists think health care should be provided by the state. Their latest version of that idea is “Medicare for...
Rising Interest Rates Will Crush the Federal Budget
The Republicans Need Their Own Student Loan Reform. Here It Is.
President Biden just canceled a mother-load of student debt. The income limit for the President's largess is $125,000 for individual borrowers and $250,000 for married and heads of households. Those below these limits received up to...
Ideas for the Fall Election: Seniors
The election this fall was supposed to be a red wave. Now it looks like that may not happen. The Republican problem today is no different than it was 50 years ago. Too many Republicans don’t believe in reforming institutions. They think...
Republican Alternative to the New Health Reforms
Goodman Institute scholars are proposing voter-friendly solutions to the IRA bill -- with no new taxes, no new spending, and no regulations that will suppress the production of life saving drugs.
The IRA Bill: What’s Our Answer?
Price controls could mean 135 fewer new drugs in the next two decades. CORBIS VIA GETTY IMAGES The reconciliation bill Democrats in Congress are about to pass will impose price controls on prescription drugs for Medicare beneficiaries...
Why California Needs Higher Prices for Water
California’s extreme drought will force rationing of water or higher prices, say John McKenzie and Richard McKenzie. Raising water prices has a great advantage: “Higher water prices can increase the state’s available water...
Finally, A Safe Way To Play The Market — Upside Investing
Upside Investing represents a revolution in investment/spending strategy. It lets you set a living standard floor that only rises as a result of investing in stocks and other risky assets. The higher your floor, the lower your...
Inequality has been Greatly Exaggerated
Peter Coy, the premier economics correspondent of The New York Times, just covered a major study on inequality and fiscal progressivity that Larry Kotlikoff co-authored with Alan Auerbach, an economist at UC Berkeley, and...
Here’s What’s Wrong With BBB Lite
The congressional leadership has given up on a $3.5 trillion (or was it $5.5T?) “Build Back Better” spending bill and whittled it down to a much less expensive alternative. There are two main components: extending subsidies for...
The Marriage Tax
Young adults with low- or middle-income jobs pay a heavy price if they marry. GETTY Economists, tax specialists and even ordinary people have long known that public policies can make marriage very unattractive. At the lower end of the...
Health Reforms for Voters
BY JOHN C. GOODMAN AND DEAN CLANCY. Health care consistently ranks near the top of American voters’ list of concerns and is likely to remain there. In fact, in Americans for Prosperity’s latest health care poll, conducted on June 22by...
Medicare Prescription Drugs: A Case Study In Government Failure
The sick who need drugs are overcharged while the relatively healthy premium payers are ... [+]GETTY Bernie Sanders and other socialists think health care should be provided by the state. Their latest version of that idea is “Medicare for...
Rising Interest Rates Will Crush the Federal Budget
The Republicans Need Their Own Student Loan Reform. Here It Is.
President Biden just canceled a mother-load of student debt. The income limit for the President's largess is $125,000 for individual borrowers and $250,000 for married and heads of households. Those below these limits received up to...
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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Many years ago I read a book called Patient Power. It was… written by Musgrave and Goodman. John Goodman is… known as the Father of Health Savings Accounts.
They’ve developed innovative ideas on how to create a better health system, a less expensive health system, a health system with more access for well over two decades.
John Goodman is the leading expert on free market proposals for probably the most dysfunctional 1/6th of our economy that exists. He does a spectacular job.
Our Priorities
The Goodman Institute is doing work not done by any other organization – especially in the areas of tax, health care and entitlement policy. Without our work the nation might not have obtained tax reform. Now we need to defend it.
We work with the best scholars from around the country on the nation’s most difficult public policy problems. Our mission is to find private alternatives to government programs that aren’t working. Ideas have enormous potential to change the course of human events.
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