Resident Fellow, The Foundation for Research on Equal Opportunity (FREOPP). Healthcare policy specialist. @thedispatch contributor. Opinion in @wsj, @wapo, @nro
Austin, TX
Joined January 2019
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My latest in The Hill: For too long, we have paid more for a healthcare system that delivers less. We can and must do better.
This is where the Fair Care Act comes in: a set of bipartisan solutions for lower costs, more coverage, and better outcomes.
thehill.com/opinion/healthca…
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The government's failure to make health care affordable via Obamacare does not inspire confidence in its ability to do so via Medicare for All.
For individuals buying their own private health insurance plans in Washington, premiums have increased by over 22% for 2027.
This is outrageous and does not even include the potentially high deductibles, copays, or out-of-network costs. We need Medicare for All.
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This is a perfect encapsulation of the thinking of the new Republican elite that thinks it’s in touch with the concerns and priorities of normal Americans but is actually living a complete fantasyland detached from reality.
Voters in every single state said tariffs did more to hurt than help. They raised costs *and* hurt manufacturing employment.
Anyone who is still pushing this way of thinking as a justifiable economic or political agenda should be ignored.
MAGA is dead. The tariff-happy new right is a failure. The midterms made that perfectly clear. We don’t have to pretend otherwise anymore.
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Looks like we got out of TX just in time...couldn't be happier to move back to my home state.
#FloridaLife
One of the more interesting stories from yesterday will be how Florida and Texas - two states with similar political climates - ended up with such different results. A big part of that comes down to the GOP leadership in each. There were missteps in both, but...
One state kept at least a slight buffer of regional independence from the White House's political operations, succeeded in keeping sleaze like Fishback off its ticket, kept state and local government focused on relatively conventional conservative issues, and managed to keep enough Hispanic voters in the coalition to win.
The other state tried to turn itself into MAGA central, tried to import JD Vance style economic populism into a part of the country that wanted nothing to do with that, made sleaze like Paxton the face of its statewide campaign, and actively drove Hispanic voters (as well as other minorities as per Bo French) out of the coalition by sticking them in the eye in the months before the election.
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"...like health care, housing, and child care. We look forward to working with policymakers from both parties to advance solutions that not only uplift the American people, but strengthen their families, their communities, and their faith in our free enterprise system.”
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Here's our affordability handbook. We sincerely look forward to working with anyone committed to achieving upward mobility and abundance for the American people through liberty, free enterprise, and pluralism:
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In the bluest state in the country, in the bluest tsunami you can imagine, Phil Scott still won. By being a pro-growth moderate. Aided by Democrats picking a candidate who is an anti-growth radical.
I am BEGGING both parties to learn from this!
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A reminder to @oren_cass that America hates your tariff agenda. And this one is from the NBC exit polls:
It was a real privilege to vote in Florida for the first time in almost two decades. It's good to be back!
While the elections for governor and senator were important, I'm thrilled we pushed property tax cuts over the line. Even in an election that shifted toward Dems, FL voters overwhelmingly supported tax cuts. TX could learn something from this.
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This is a very interesting preview of the post-election argument. DeSantis takes on the Trump admin in perhaps the most effective way for Republican voters -- the admin was incompetent and corrupt. They failed you. I expect people will be willing to hear that message quite soon. We'll see.
Governor DeSantis BLASTS Kristi Noem for bungling mass deportations and turning it into a shit show for her own glory.
DeSantis BLASTS Congressmen like Byron Donalds for making millions on the stock market.
DeSantis BLASTS Alina Habba for getting a $10 million government contract and securing a presidential pardon for her boyfriend.
“If the people in office don't display some civic virtue about public service as a sacrifice. It's not to use the public office for private gain.
I declined the pension in Congress. I declined the health care. I didn't trade the stocks.
And I believe in congressional term limits. I mean, imagine if you went to the American people and actually tried to get that done. That's not right or left. That's something that a lot of people realize.. These guys work for themselves. They should be working for you.”
It’s as if you’re better off not saying a single word during a preventative appointment, just to be sure you don’t say anything that AI could construe as a non-preventative issue that you’re gonna get billed for.
Just in case there was any doubt about AI being used to inflate health care bills. Got this just now after my annual preventive visit had an extra charge.
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"What do I owe society?", asked the guy in the green.
“I’m old. I’ve paid my home off,” said Ray Warner, a 72-year-old Akron resident. “Why would I pay property tax?”
Across the country, homeowners are asking the same question and revolting against property taxes at a scale not seen in a half century.
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1/ Finally, a paper I've wanted to see for years.
Linehan, Niknam & Buntin test whether Medicare's "site-neutral" rates actually match what physician offices would be paid for the same care.
We raise this in nearly every site-neutral comment letter.
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam…
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A great move by @wapo and a testament to Scott’s brilliance.
The Cato Institute is pleased to announce that @scottlincicome, vice president of general economics and the Herbert A. Stiefel Center for Trade Policy Studies, has been named a regular opinion contributor to @washingtonpost.
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