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The Ryan Medicare Plan: Winners and Losers

Baker, Dean; Rosnick, David - Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) - 2011

Representative Paul Ryan's proposed 2012 budget has been lauded as a path to prosperity, with much attetion given to his overhaul of the medicare system. Using data from the CBO analysis of the Ryan plan, this issue brief demonstrates that any savings to the government under the revamped...

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Representative Ryan’s $30 Trillion Medicare Waste Tax

Rosnick, David; Baker, Dean - Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) - 2011

Representative Ryan’s proposal to replace the current Medicare systemwith a system of vouchers or premium supports has been widely described as shifting costs from the government to beneficiaries. However, the size of this shift is actually small relative to the projected increase in costs...

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The Affordable Care Act: A Family-Friendly Policy

Baker, Dean; Jorgensen, Helene - Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) - 2014

Most of the discussion of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) has focused on the extent to which it has extended health insurance coverage to the formerly uninsured. This is certainly an important aspect of the law. However by allowing people to buy insurance through the exchanges and extending...

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Competition policy and poverty reduction: A holistic approach

Anderson, Robert D.; Müller, Anna Caroline - Economic Research and Statistics Division (ERSD), World … - 2013

This paper examines the role of competition law and policy as tools for poverty reduction and development. The authors put forward five related principles, building upon the important work on related issues that has been done by the OECD, the International Competition Network (ICN), UNCTAD and...

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The roles of child support enforcement and welfare in non-marital childbearing

Garfinkel, Irwin; Huang, Chien-Chung; McLanahan, Sara S.; … - In: Journal of Population Economics 16 (2003) 1, pp. 55-70

This paper examines the effects of stronger child support enforcement and declines in welfare benefits on changes in non-marital childbearing between 1980 and 1996. Economic theory suggests that stricter child support enforcement will increase the costs of children for unwed fathers, making them...

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Social Security in Theory and Practice: An Essay

Stanko, Dariusz - EconWPA - 2004

Understanding the role and functions of social policy and social security systems is a key point for a discussion on reforms of the retirement systems. In this essay I describe the subject and range of social policy in the modern welfare state. The work has a descriptive character and aims at...

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The Budget Deficit Scare Story and the Great Recession

Baker, Dean - Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) - 2010

The Great Recession has left tens of millions of families facing unemployment, underemployment and the threat of losing their home. However,concerns over the deficit threaten to derail efforts to turn around the economy and spur employment. This report attempts to correct many of the...

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The Affordable Care Act: A Hidden Jobs Killer?

Baker, Dean; Jorgensen, Helene - Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) - 2013

Opponents of the ACA have labeled the health care bill a jobs killer. It seems implausible that the bill could be expected to have much impact on employment except among the relatively small number of firms that are near the 50-worker cutoff. However the bill does provide a clear incentive to...

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State Savings with an Efficient Medicare Prescription Drug Benefit

Baker, Dean; Woo, Nicole - Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) - 2013

Americans pay far higher prices for prescription drugs than do people in other wealthy countries. The reason that other … countries spend so much less on drugs is that their governments negotiate prices with the pharmaceutical industry. The United … same, or even lower, prices as are paid by other wealthy nations. This issue brief finds the potential savings to states …

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Reducing Waste With an Efficient Medicare Prescription Drug Benefit

Baker, Dean - Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) - 2013

administrative costs and also as result of Medicare’s ability to use its market power to directly negotiate lower prices with the … by negotiating drug prices. …

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