Making Ideas
Change the World
Creating jobs, liberating taxpayers,
empowering patients, and more…
First Annual Awards Dinner a Success
It brought like-minded people together, local and national political and community leaders, for a memorable evening dedicated to the institute’s initiative,
the Healthcare Contract With America.
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
Voter’s Guide on Health Reform
This brief Q & A covers all the major issues, including telemedicine, direct primary care, portable health insurance, Health Savings Accounts, continuous open enrollment, etc. There are two types of information: (1) what the issue is...
Protecting Seniors from Inflation
Getty Images Inflation is running at 8.3 percent annually. This is a retrospective rate. It tells us that prices this April were 8.3 percent higher than last April. On a prospective basis, things look far better. April’s monthly...
A Health Reform Whose Time Has Come
Two members of Congress several years ago introduced a bill that would have liberated patients, doctors, and healthcare markets from the bureaucratic system we are living with today. The basic idea: Take all the spending and tax...
Why “Testing to Treat” for Covid Isn’t Working
A pharmacist wearing a protective facemask. (Photo by STEPHANE DE SAKUTIN / AFP) (Photo by STEPHANE ... [+]AFP VIA GETTY IMAGES President Biden's Test to Treat plan will allow people to test for COVID at a pharmacy and if positive,...
Solution for Student Debt
Student loan debt listed on table with name tags. GETTY In accelerating forgiveness of certain income-based student loans, President Biden performed minor cosmetic surgery on an atrocious system. Fortunately, there’s a simple solution:...
Whatever Happened to the $15 Minimum Wage?
Workers demonstrate for the $15 minimum wage in New York City in 2017. LIGHTROCKET VIA GETTY IMAGES It seems like only yesterday that the $15 minimum wage was high on the agenda of every self-respecting progressive politician,...
David Theroux R.I.P.
It is with deep sadness that I must report the passing of David Theroux. David founded and directed the Independent Institute, a think tank that has published more than 140 scholarly books – many of which won national book awards. He...
Money Magic – An Economist’s Look Into Personal Finance
"Your World, Your Money sits down with bestselling author & Economics professor Laurence Kotlikoff to discuss his new release, “Money Magic,” an economist's primer on personal finance for navigating career, retirement,...
What’s Wrong with Planting More Trees?
Planting trees to sequester carbon and prevent carbon dioxide emissions has become very popular (whether it is accomplishing much or not). Now the New York Times reports that the effort to save the world is causing local...
April 2022 Health Care News
Click here to view/download the latest issue of Health Care News. Congress Turns to the Think Tanks for HelpDemocrats Go After Short Term PlansCalifornia Punts on Single Payer PlanFauci’s Secret War on Great Barrington...
Covid: Could We Have Saved More Lives?
According to a Goodman Institute study by David Henderson and Charles Hooper, studies suggest that there are at least 11 drugs that can substantially reduce mortality in patients who contract Covid-19. These drugs are widely used,...
What’s Wrong with the Economy?
Inflation has been driven by an explosion of federal spending, which rose to 40% of GDP. Spending surged as the pandemic shutdown reduced employment and production during that period by an average of 7%. In this textbook case of...
Voter’s Guide on Health Reform
This brief Q & A covers all the major issues, including telemedicine, direct primary care, portable health insurance, Health Savings Accounts, continuous open enrollment, etc. There are two types of information: (1) what the issue is...
Protecting Seniors from Inflation
Getty Images Inflation is running at 8.3 percent annually. This is a retrospective rate. It tells us that prices this April were 8.3 percent higher than last April. On a prospective basis, things look far better. April’s monthly...
A Health Reform Whose Time Has Come
Two members of Congress several years ago introduced a bill that would have liberated patients, doctors, and healthcare markets from the bureaucratic system we are living with today. The basic idea: Take all the spending and tax...
Why “Testing to Treat” for Covid Isn’t Working
A pharmacist wearing a protective facemask. (Photo by STEPHANE DE SAKUTIN / AFP) (Photo by STEPHANE ... [+]AFP VIA GETTY IMAGES President Biden's Test to Treat plan will allow people to test for COVID at a pharmacy and if positive,...
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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