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Congress Must Cut Red Tape that Reduces the Effectiveness of Our COVID-19 Response

POSTED BY Brian Blase on March 19, 2020.

State and federal laws and regulations are hindering the private sector’s efforts to help fight the outbreak. Effectively responding to the coronavirus epidemic requires innovation from private companies, medical professionals, and entrepreneurs. These folks are ready to perform heroic acts, but government rules and red tape are getting in their way. To take one tragic example, it appears … [Read more...] about Congress Must Cut Red Tape that Reduces the Effectiveness of Our COVID-19 Response

Filed Under: Brian Blase, National Review

House Coronavirus Response Disproportionately Funds Richest States

POSTED BY Brian Blase on March 13, 2020.

The table below uses fiscal year 2017 Medicaid expenditure data from Kaiser Family Foundation inflated by 4 percent a year to project the extra funds that would be provided to each state in fiscal year 2020 if the House Democrats’ 8 percent FMAP bump up lasted the entire year.  It also includes the number of uninsured Americans per state in 2018. As a way of making comparisons across … [Read more...] about House Coronavirus Response Disproportionately Funds Richest States

Filed Under: Brian Blase, National Review

Reform the Federal-State Medicaid Partnership to Better Help Those in Need and Save Money

POSTED BY Brian Blase on February 12, 2020.

President Donald Trump’s budget includes Medicaid reforms that would restore accountability and improve the federal-state partnership.  Predictably, the left is on the attack, contending that these “cuts” would harm the poor and vulnerable.  In fact, the president’s proposals would reduce improper federal spending, which now exceeds $75 billion annually, preserve public resources … [Read more...] about Reform the Federal-State Medicaid Partnership to Better Help Those in Need and Save Money

Filed Under: Brian Blase, Health Insurance, The Daily Signal

Spending Deal Would Make Obamacare More Fiscally Irresponsible

POSTED BY Brian Blase on December 17, 2019.

In selling Obamacare before Congress a decade ago, President Barack Obama promised that he “would not sign a plan that adds one dime to our deficits, either now or in the future.” From her perch behind the president, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi leaped out of her seat applauding at this line. So did Vice President Joe Biden and the entire Democrat caucus. But it turns out that … [Read more...] about Spending Deal Would Make Obamacare More Fiscally Irresponsible

Filed Under: Brian Blase, The Daily Signal

New York City is a hot spot for illegal Medicaid enrollment

POSTED BY Brian Blase on November 30, 2019.

New York state is grappling with a Medicaid shortfall in the billions of dollars. And one of the main reasons is improper enrollment. Using annual information from the Census Bureau to assess the demographic make-up of Medicaid enrollees over time, researcher Aaron Yelowitz and I estimated that 2.3 million to 3.3 million Medicaid enrollees nationally make an income in excess of what is … [Read more...] about New York City is a hot spot for illegal Medicaid enrollment

Filed Under: Brian Blase, Medicaid, New York Post

Not ‘Junk’: Setting the Record Straight on Short-Term Health Coverage Plans

POSTED BY Brian Blase on October 23, 2019.

Several Democrats on a House Energy and Commerce subcommittee at a hearing Wednesday derided short-term health-insurance plans as “junk,” accusing the Trump administration of “sabotaging” the health care system with a rule that expanded people’s ability to purchase these plans.  The accusations are without merit.  While I was at the National Economic Council, I coordinated the … [Read more...] about Not ‘Junk’: Setting the Record Straight on Short-Term Health Coverage Plans

Filed Under: Brian Blase, The Daily Signal

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