Colleen Hroncich When Jennifer Granberry found out during pregnancy that her youngest son would likely have Down syndrome, she and her husband immediately started thinking about what his future would look like. “We want him to have the best life that he can have. And we want him to have the same opportunities, as best he can, that everybody has,” ...
Ryan Bourne and Nathan Miller President Trump first mused about a US Sovereign Wealth Fund during his 2024 presidential campaign. Shortly after taking office, he signed an executive order instructing his Treasury and Commerce secretaries to design such a fund. Those plans would ultimately stall, but as we summarized in August, what we’ve seen instead is a wave of ad hoc stakes ...
Matthew Cavedon In 2017, St. Louis police officer Christopher Tanner shot fellow officer Milton Green when both were in the line of duty. Tanner claimed that he shot Green, who was off-duty and outside his own home, because Green—despite facing the opposite direction—had pointed a gun at him and defied his commands. But Green alleged that he actually kept his ...
Chris Edwards The federal government shutdown is damaging the nation’s air traffic control (ATC) operations. Thousands of flights have been delayed due to short staffing at ATC facilities. ATC employees are supposed to be on duty during shutdowns, but some are staying home because they are not being paid. We’ve seen partisan budget battles screw up our aviation system before. ...
Michael F. Cannon Grumpy economist John Cochrane, the Rose-Marie and Jack Anderson Senior Fellow of the Hoover Institution at Stanford University and a Cato Institute adjunct scholar, has published a kind and lengthy write-up of my National Affairs article, “U.S. Health Care: The Free-market Myth.” Cochrane and I may have some differences of interpretation. Where I write: Medicare pays ambulatory ...
Matthew Cavedon On Monday, Senator Chuck Grassley (R‑IA) revealed that the FBI spied on nine Republican senators during the Biden administration. Politico responded by dismissively huffing that the agency did not technically tap the Senators’ phones—it merely tracked the time and length of the calls they made. It should have added that the FBI also logged who was involved in ...
Romina Boccia and Ritvik Thakur Medicare1 isn’t just facing a trust fund shortfall—it’s threatening America’s entire fiscal future. While headlines warn that the Hospital Insurance (HI) Trust Fund2 will run out in 2033, the real danger comes from a different part of the program: Supplementary Medical Insurance (SMI). SMI refers to Medicare spending by Part B (doctors’ visits and outpatient ...
Neal McCluskey The Trump administration has proffered nine universities a deal: Take our rules, and we will give you special access to federal money and “partnerships.” It’s a deal that all the colleges should reject because it would involve selling their souls. And the problem is not that the deal is coming from Donald Trump. Although some aspects of the ...
Adam N. Michel At the center of the government shutdown is a disagreement over whether to extend a temporary pandemic-era expansion of the Affordable Care Act’s premium tax credits. These subsidies cover health insurance premiums for the roughly 7 percent of Americans who use the government-run Obamacare insurance marketplace. Sold as a temporary boost during the COVID-19 pandemic, the subsidies ...
Michael F. Cannon Everyone says Medicare is facing a “trust fund shortfall.” Not only is that a gross falsehood, the reality is much worse. The very phrase “Medicare trust fund” is a pure falsehood. There is no such thing. That which the phrase describes contains no funds, nor should one trust anybody who pretends it does. When people use the ...