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Jun 10
Everyone knows what conservatives don't like about the welfare state.
It's time for a right-of-center vision of what it *should* be doing:
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Jun 12
Everyone criticizes America's healthcare system; but all proposals to significantly change it quickly become unpopular.
Why is this so?
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Jun 12
Does Italy's experience offer a glimpse of our future?
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Jun 12
This may seem like good advice; but sometimes copies get lost, borrowed by friends, or have coffee spilled on them -- so it is better to buy 3-4 copies just to be safe.
Jun 12
I've already ordered my copy and you should too.
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Jun 12
Much of America's welfare state was designed and built by Jim Crow Southern Democrats.
Is there a smaller, fairer, and more effective way to structure these programs?
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Jun 11
America's welfare state spends much less than those across Europe, but its poor are substantially better off. How can this be possible?
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Jun 11
Why do European countries have such expensive welfare states?
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Jun 11
Why isn't the welfare state focused on aiding those who can't provide for themselves?
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Jun 10
Why did the cost of American healthcare increase so rapidly?
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Jun 10
How did we end up with enormous entitlement programs for the middle-class?
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Jun 10
Barack Obama once told Congress: "I believe what Republican Abraham Lincoln believed: That government should do for people only what they cannot do better by themselves, and no more.”
What would government look like if we took this principle seriously?
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Chris Pope retweeted
Jun 10
Chris presented some of his manuscript at @aier , and I knew we had to try to publish it. I'm glad to see it out today! Smart, data-grounded, eye-opening research.
Jun 10
Everyone knows what conservatives don't like about the welfare state.
It's time for a right-of-center vision of what it *should* be doing:
amazon.com/dp/1630695432/
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What if many of the most widely accepted assumptions about the welfare state are wrong?
In The American Way of Welfare, @CPopeHC of @ManhattanInst challenges conventional wisdom about poverty, inequality, and taxation.
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Jun 4
Social Security redistributes slightly progressively if you judge benefits by an interest rate of 2%; regressively if you do so by 4%: nber.org/system/files/workin…
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Jun 4
Whatever the case for block granting Medicaid may have been 20 years ago, today it would just create an incentive for states to find ways to dump all their Medicaid beneficiaries on the federally funded ACA exchange.
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Jun 3
When an economist is on your co-op board (@AllisonSchrager): city-journal.org/multimedia/…
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The only way to fix Social Security is to internalize the advantages of reform: manhattan.institute/article/…
Jun 3
In an Economist poll by YouGov, 71% of respondents say Social Security spending should be increased, more than for any other category. Just 5% want it cut, slightly less than the share of Americans who say they believe Covid-19 vaccinations were used to microchip the population.
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Jun 1
If the data shows that the welfare state is regressive, the appropriate response should be to reform the welfare state -- not to add a new tax or say it's OK because the welfare state isn't about aiding the poor.
Jun 1
A translated version of this oped since the argument nearly one-for-one to the US debate
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May 29
Before the Medicaid managed care plan lobbying organization in the fall of 2024, I debated Chris Jennings.
I said that I’ve seen no evidence that managed care in Medicaid improved quality or lowered costs. I asked for examples…and I’ve still not received anything!
May 29
Why do states subcontract Medicaid to private insurers if the government provides all the money, tells the insurers what they must cover and how much they have to pay for it, and doesn’t competitively bid the contracts?
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