Hunt Lawrence and Daniel J. Flynn
Massachusetts considers a ballot question on Tuesday that proposes to “limit how many patients could be assigned to each registered nurse in Massachusetts hospitals and certain other health care facilities.” Judging by signage and surveys, “yes” on Question 1 appeared…
Amazon killed Sears, Toys R Us, and Borders. Can it save our healthcare system? The company further fueled speculation about its desire to venture from its rainforest into the healthcare jungle through a recent job posting. The Amazon Benefits Department…
Paul Reveres or Chicken Littles, depending upon your perspective, warn of a coming danger. The doomsday scenarios appear confined neither to an intellectual ghetto where the respectable fear to tread nor to either end of the ideological spectrum. “The Coming…
Federal revenues flatline at $3.3 trillion. The amount the federal government took in this year matches what it took in last year, and the year before that, and the year before that. There would be a Groundhog Day quality to…
Ronald Reagan and Jack Kemp railed against income tax rates crushing the American dream four decades ago. Today, Americans devote almost exactly the same percentage of the economy to healthcare as the federal government received in taxes 40 years ago….
The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released its annual budgetary forecast this week. The Washington, D.C. weathermen say storm clouds approach. Under the rosiest scenario, U.S. debt-to-GDP ratio approaches the highest level on record, about 119 percent in the aftermath of…
House Republicans seek to extend the Trump tax reforms that sunset in 2025 through something called Tax Reform 2.0. House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Kevin Brady (R-TX) says this effort to permanentize last December’s reforms includes the limitation on…
New York, Connecticut, New Jersey, and Maryland filed suit against the federal government this week over Congress’s limitation of the state and local tax (SALT) deduction. Congress capped the deduction to $10,000 as part of Donald Trump’s tax overhaul passed…
By next week, a single Blockbuster location calls the United States home. A few weeks ago, every Toys “R” Us location in the country shuttered. Around the same time, General Electric, the Dow ‘s last original component on the index,…
