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I have no idea what the nonprofit community would do without Rick Cohen of the Nonprofit Quarterly: if there’s an issue affecting nonprofits he’ll have a fresh and useful perspective on it, and this article about the Community Health Needs Assessments required by the Affordable Care Act is no exception. What struck me most was [...]
Archive for the ‘Affordable Care Act’ Category
February 7th, 2013
Category: 501(c)(3), Affordable Care Act, charity, Health Care, Illinois, Innovation, NonProfits, public health, Taxation
January 16th, 2013
Category: Affordable Care Act, Debt ceiling
Keith Hennessey has a long piece noting that a debt limit fight is bad politics and bad economics, that prioritization won’t work and that Republicans should instead fight it out around the sequester and the continuing resolution that is funding the government. It is a reasonable strategy that reduces the chance of economic calamity, while [...]
January 5th, 2013
Category: Affordable Care Act
Aaron Carroll highlights the hypocrisy of House Republicans saying ‘we have to cut Medicare’ and then adopting rules for the 113th Congress that say they will ignore the work of IPAB, whose purpose is, you guessed it, to cut the cost of Medicare if it rises faster than GDP + 1%. I have no idea [...]
January 3rd, 2013
Category: Affordable Care Act
The CLASS act went from the ranks of the walking dead to the dead and buried. This worthy, imperfect effort at least deserves some mourners at the funeral.
January 2nd, 2013
I won’t vote for Senator Mark Kirk. But his simple words today command respect.
November 26th, 2012
Warren Buffet has a piece to today’s NYT calling for higher taxes and disputing the notion that this will reduce investment. Matt Miller (@mattmillernow) noted this morning via twitter that the most consequential aspect of Buffet’s piece is his call for federal spending to be capped at 21% of GDP.
November 23rd, 2012
Want to cut wasteful federal spending? Negotiate drug prices under Medicare Part D.
November 20th, 2012
Category: Affordable Care Act
Jim Capretta and Yuval Levin have a piece in yesterday’s WSJ arguing that the implementation of Obamacare is still uncertain, and suggesting states should not move to set up exchanges. Their primary argument is that talk of inevitability of the law’s implementation is designed to force states to move ahead, and they are trying to [...]