…Part B premiums. Risk-score gaming creates a major transfer of wealth from taxpayers and Medicare beneficiaries to MA plans, and it lies at the heart of the business model for…

…cuts–including those that amount to significant dollars for the wealthiest upper crust–will create a dire situation since, the right argues, the wealthy are the “job creators”. There is no empirical…

…to overstate how central the unjustified label of “fiscal conservative” is to the Ryan brand and the GOP’s strategy. As Clinton understood in the 1990s, “fiscal responsibility” is a values…

…back to $2/gallon in a few months? As we see our home values–and the equity we can tap into–falling, do we expect to get back to relying on that “wealth”…

…would be elated that his broker would make a $500 gift to him even though the broker was about to pocket $1500 of the young investor’s wealth. OK, the young…

…of real output. Crowding out was a new label for what Keynes had referred to as the Treasury View, which Winston Churchill elaborated in 1929: The orthodox Treasury view, and…

…The phrase “value-based payment” emerged in the 2000s as the label for all methods of payment that shift insurance risk from insurance companies and public programs like Medicare onto health…

…the persistence of extreme want in a nation of extraordinary wealth, a distillation into argument form of the message embedded within the narrative of “Evicted.” And the central claim of…

…threat to doctors and patients. A Brief History of Value-Based Payment The phrase “value-based payment” emerged in the 2000s as the label for all methods of payment that shift insurance…

…railroads threatened to distort the workings of the free enterprise system. In most places, a single railroad held a local monopoly, which it used to extract wealth from the community…