Quarterly Report

THIRD QUARTER REPORT 2024

October 23, 2024

The U.S. fiscal system comprises over 1,000 spending programs. There are 51 distinct versions of Medicaid, SNAP (food stamps), Section-8 housing support, Affordable Care Act subsidies, and many other in-kind and in-cash benefit programs. Each program has its own, often draconian, eligibility rules and tax/benefit schedules that depend on a host of demographic and economic factors.

SECOND QUARTER REPORT 2024

June 25, 2024

If economists say people are richer, why don’t they feel that way? With 10% inflation, the average family can expect to lose almost 7% of its lifetime income to government.

FIRST QUARTER REPORT 2024

March 22, 2024

When does the failure to answer a phone call in 8 seconds cost the company receiving the call $190 million? When the caller is a spy working for the agency that runs Medicare and the receiving entity is a private insurance company.

FOURTH QUARTER REPORT 2023

December 30, 2023

In a recent investigative report, the CBS program 60 Minutes highlighted a series of alarming practices within the Social Security Administration, documented by Boston University economics professor and Goodman Institute Senior Fellow Laurence Kotlikoff.

THIRD QUARTER REPORT 2023

September 18, 2023

Goodman Institute Senior Fellow Laurence Kotlikoff is the nation’s number one expert on Social Security. He has coauthored the best book on the subject. He has created the most accurate Social Security calculator. Now he has created a portal where beneficiaries can input their personal horror stories.

SECOND QUARTER REPORT 2023

June 22, 2023

With assistance from the Goodman Institute and the Americans for Prosperity, Congressman Pete Sessions (R-TX) has introduced a sweeping new health care bill. Intended as an alternative to Bernie Sanders’ Medicare for All proposal, the bill does three important things.

FIRST QUARTER REPORT 2023

March 27, 2023

For the last two decades, economists associated with the Goodman Institute have regularly reported on and analyzed the unfunded liability in our entitlement programs. We are the only think tank that does this.

FOURTH QUARTER REPORT 2022

January 20, 2023

In the past quarter, the Goodman Institute produced key advice for candidates and voters during the fall elections, gave an award to Phil Gramm, in part for his pathbreaking new book on inequality in America, exposed the pitfalls in the IRA bill passed by Congress, and produced a stunning new study on retirement.

THIRD QUARTER REPORT 2022

October 3, 2022

In this quarter the Goodman Institute and Americans for Prosperity have joined forces to propose a series of health policy reforms that should appeal to both major parties and to all voters. We have also been sharing ideas related to the Fall election with candidates, voters, editorial writers and others. These are bipartisan ideas that should appeal to everyone.

SECOND QUARTER REPORT 2022

June 22, 2022

In this quarter the Goodman Institute published commentaries on how Congress can help protect us from inflation, and a comprehensive first-of- its-kind guide for voters and candidates as we approach the fall election.

FIRST QUARTER REPORT 2022

March 24, 2022

In this quarter the Goodman Institute published the key health policy recommendations of 81 think tanks and activist organizations. These policy changes are pro-patient, pro-family and pro-free enterprise. We also published studies on the government’s failure to promote early Covid treatment, government spending as the cause of our current inflation, and the government’s role in promoting bad diet advice.

Fourth QUARTER REPORT 2021

Dec 17, 2021

In the past quarter, the Goodman Institute held its first annual awards dinner, presenting the Antony Fisher Award to Texas governor Greg Abbott. The institute also made considerable progress uniting almost all right-of-center think tanks behind a set of pro-free enterprise health reforms.

THIRD QUARTER REPORT 2021

Sept 22, 2021

In this quarter, Goodman Institute scholars analyzed the $3.5 trillion spending plan emerging in Congress, as well as the new Social Security Trustees report. These are one-of-a-kind analyses you won’t find anywhere else. We are also developing a new way for candidates to talk about health.

SECOND QUARTER REPORT 2021

Jun 30, 2021

In this quarter, the Goodman Institute, in partnership with the Heritage Foundation, rolled out an Agenda on Health. Designed as a roadmap for policy makers who favor free-enterprise reforms, the document had input from Newt Gingrich, key members of Congress, and others. Also, Professor Laurence Kotlikoff has produced a first-of-its kind study on inequality in the US – finding that the issue has been greatly exaggerated.

FIRST QUARTER REPORT 2021

Mar 31, 2021

During the first quarter, the Goodman Institute paid special attention to health policy, including identifying Trump administration reforms that need to be made permanent and proposing bipartisan solutions for Obamacare. A new book from the institute explores the need to reform our social insurance programs (including Social Security and Medicare) and a controversial essay asks whether conservatism needs resetting.

FOURTH QUARTER REPORT 2020

Dec 20, 2020

During the fourth quarter, the Goodman Institute succeeded in pulling politicians, think tanks and editorial writers together to endorse a health policy agenda, summarized in our Third Quarter Report. This agenda focuses on many Trump era reforms that were largely ignored in the mainstream media and all too often by the president himself. We also produced a cutting-edge analyses of the Biden/Harris economic plan and the effects of Republican tax reform on Georgia voters.

THIRD QUARTER IN REVIEW 2020

Oct 4, 2020

During the third quarter, we continued to partner with the Heritage Foundation in explaining the Trump administration’s health reforms and the need to make them permanent through congressional legislation. We continued our partnership with the Heartland Institute to publish Health Care News. And we initiated a major study of the Biden/Harris economic plan.

SECOND QUARTER IN REVIEW 2020

Jun 29, 2020

In this quarter we did some remarkable things. We partnered with the Heartland Institute to rescue Heath Care News, an invaluable communications tool in this election year. We completed the arduous task of bringing right-of-center organizations together to endorse health reforms the Trump administration has been implementing for some time. And Prof. Kotlikoff and his colleague have produced first-of-their kind estimates of lifetime marginal tax rates for people of all ages and income levels and the impact of carbon taxation for the current and future generations.

FIRST QUARTER IN REVIEW 2020

Mar 26, 2020

This quarter was dominated by health policy. Obamacare turned age ten. The coronavirus attacked. The goal of the Goodman Institute was to identify and promote core reforms backed by think tanks, advocacy groups, members of Congress and the Trump administration – to give those reforms clarity, voice, intellectual support and leadership.

FOURTH QUARTER REPORT 2019

Dec 31, 2019

Almost alone among U.S. think tanks, the Goodman Institute has long supported allowing employees to own their own health insurance and to be able to take it with them from job to job. Thanks to the Trump administration, millions of workers will have that opportunity beginning this January.

THIRD QUARTER IN REVIEW 2019

Oct 1, 2019

During the third quarter, the Goodman Institute joined with the Heritage Foundation to develop a health reform plan for the Trump administration, developed a solution for surprise medical bills, explained what Republicans and Democrats want to do with Medicare and created a new environmental blog.

SECOND QUARTER IN REVIEW 2019

Jul 1, 2019

In this quarter, the Trump Administration adopted a major Goodman Institute health care reform, our economists produced stunning new evidence on the effects of tax reform, and Republicans on the Hill updated a resolution on pre-existing conditions that we helped prepare last year.

FIRST QUARTER IN REVIEW 2019

Apr 5, 2019

The Goodman Institute is the only right-of-center think tank that has called for major reforms in Medicare, and a number of those reforms are being implemented by the Trump administration. We have also produced the only estimates of the lifetime benefits of tax reform.

FOURTH QUARTER REPORT 2018

Jan 5, 2019

The Goodman Institute, more than any other think tank in the country, made a significant difference in 2018 in two areas: taxes and health care.

THIRD QUARTER IN REVIEW 2018

Sep 30, 2018

In the third quarter of 2018, the Goodman Institute continued to defend the tax reform bill against its critics. We are also continuing to work with members of Congress to find a alternative to Obamacare.

SECOND QUARTER IN REVIEW 2018

Jul 3, 2018

In the second quarter of 2018, the Goodman Institute continued to defend the tax reform bill against its critics. We are also continuing to work with members of Congress to find a replacement to Obamacare before the next election.

FIRST QUARTER IN REVIEW 2018

Mar 30, 2018

In the first quarter of 2018, the Goodman Institute took the lead in defending the tax reform bill against its critics. Throughout 2017 there was a steady drum beat of attack from writers and even many economists who were critical of the reform effort. We expect that to continue. If there is a significant electoral swing in the next two elections and if tax reform is a cause of it, the reform will be in serious jeopardy.

FOURTH QUARTER REPORT 2017

Jan 5, 2018

In 2017, the Goodman Institute took the lead in providing the intellectual basis for congressional efforts to reform the health care system and the tax system. While health care reform is temporarily stalled, tax reform was a significant achievement. This achievement could be undone, however, if we do not successfully defend it in this election year.

THIRD QUARTER IN REVIEW 2017

Oct 10, 2017

During the third quarter, the Goodman Institute went into overdrive to clear the air of fake news on health reform and geared up for a similar battle on tax reform. Goodman Institute president John Goodman and board member Nan Hayworth were especially visible on cable television, defending the Graham/Cassidy/Heller/Johnson Obamacare replacement bill from all manner of unfair attacks.

SECOND QUARTER IN REVIEW 2017

Jul 13, 2017

The Goodman Institute for Public Policy Research is doing things that are not being done by any other organization. We are supplying Congress, the media and the public policy community with the very best advice the scholarly world has to offer on health reform, tax reform and entitlement reform.

FIRST QUARTER IN REVIEW 2017

May 11, 2017

The Goodman Institute for Public Policy Research is doing things that are not being done by any other organization. We are supplying Congress with the very best advice the scholarly world has to offer on health reform and tax reform. If the Trump administration is willing, we can do the same for entitlement reform.

FOURTH QUARTER REPORT 2016

Jan 1, 2017

In three areas (taxes, entitlements and health care) the Goodman Institute is producing material not available from any other organization.

THIRD QUARTER IN REVIEW 2016

Oct 9, 2016

In three areas (taxes, entitlements and health care) the Goodman Institute is producing material not available from any other organization.

SECOND QUARTER IN REVIEW 2016

Jul 14, 2016

In three areas (taxes, entitlements and health care) the Goodman Institute is producing material not available from any other organization.

FIRST QUARTER IN REVIEW 2016

Apr 13, 2016

In three areas (taxes, entitlements and health care) the Goodman Institute is producing material not available from any other organization.