America needs to slow significantly the growth rate of government spending on the major old age entitlements. Language such as that used by President Obama may scare some seniors into voting for him, but it will make needed reforms that much more difficult after the election.
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Lame Ducks and Fiscal Cliffs (part 1)
23 July 2012 
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This is the first of a few posts on the policy decisions stacking up for the end of this year. I will simply list the moving parts, deadlines and timeframes, and which election scenarios are most important to analyze.
Read more Why not expand Medicaid?
16 July 2012 5 Comments
Let’s briefly review seven challenges to the case made by advocates for Medicaid expansion under the ACA.
Read more Wall Street Journal op-ed
3 July 2012 Comments Off
Here’s my op-ed in today’s Wall Street Journal: A Strategy to Undo Obamacare.
Read more Who will pay the ObamaCare uninsured tax?
28 June 2012 9 Comments
These three million people are not rich, they will be uninsured, and they will be required to pay higher taxes. The tax increases on these people clearly violate the President’s pledge not to raise taxes on anyone earning less than $250K.
Read more It's not just the economy, stupid
20 June 2012 1 Comment
The U.S. economy may not be the only subject this fall, and if we drill down further we can find complexities beyond the simplistic political analysis of “Economy bad, incumbent loses.” President Obama’s economic campaign challenge is multidimensional.
Read more President Obama's Cleveland economy speech – detailed outline
15 June 2012 Comments Off
This is my attempt to build a detailed outline of the economic speech President Obama gave in Cleveland yesterday. The prior post is a much shorter outline than this one.
Read more President Obama's Cleveland economy speech – high-level outline
15 June 2012 Comments Off
This is my attempt to outline President Obama’s economic speech, given yesterday in Cleveland. This is a super short high-level outline. The following post is a much more detailed outline.
Read more America's entitlement spending problem
24 April 2012 Comments Off
The Social Security financing gap is $23.2 trillion. Over the next twenty years, demographics are a bigger driver of entitlement spending growth than are health care costs.
Read more If the Joint Committee fails, some ObamaCare spending will be cut
3 August 2011 1 Comment
On Monday I missed the new Affordable Care Act (ObamaCare) mandatory spending. While the biggest spending components of this law would be exempt from the sequester, significant parts of it would be subject to cuts if the Joint Committee fails.
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