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Tracking Healthcare Cost Growth Through a New Measure of Productivity

This brief provides a new explanation for why healthcare cost growth is showing restraint. Specifically, we find evidence that the healthcare sector is finally managing…

How Rising Health Costs Slow Wage Growth

Most Americans are painfully aware that their health care premiums are rising faster than other necessities of life. Many also know that their earnings are…

How Rising Health Costs Slow Wage Growth

Most Americans are painfully aware that their health care premiums are rising faster than other necessities of life. Many also know that their earnings are…

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Prescription for Decline

PPI President Will Marshall writes for Foreign Policy on the impact healthcare costs are having on the US economy and the “American decline.” Lost in…

Will Marshall on Wyden-Ryan Medicare Plan

PPI President Will Marshall breaks down the merits of the Wyden-Ryan plan for Medicare reform in Politico: An honest debate over Medicare’s future may be…

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State of the Union 2013: Right Direction, Wrong Speed

President Obama got off on the right foot in last night’s State of the Union address by putting America’s economic revival at the center of…

The Real Meaning of Obamacare

Back in 1996, I wrote a book called The High-Risk Society. The book was based on the vision that Americans had to embrace risk and innovation…

Why Romney’s Medicare Taxes Are So Low

As the presidential candidates debate the fate of Medicare, it’s worth noting a very simple fact: Mitt Romney paid only 0.07% of his income in…

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