“It's a credible check'' on the private insurance industry, said Len Nichols, director of the New America Foundation's health policy program, who wrote an influential paper proposing this idea as a compromise. “It forces competitive bidding, ...
"This is the key to moving forward," said Peter Bergen, a specialist on radical Islamic terrorism at the New America Foundation in Washington, DC "The easiest way to end an insurgency is to get people to stop being insurgents. ...
Steve Clemons, director of the American Strategy Program at the Washington-based New America Foundation, says that the Obama administration - and Rudman herself - seem too wedded to supporting the moderate Fatah party, even as its popularity fades, ...
Phillip Longman, a fellow at the New America Foundation and author of "Best Care Anywhere," a book about the Veterans Administration's quality-of-care revolution, said VistA is an unrecognized national resource. "It's really insane that we have a fully ...
Steve Coll, president of the New America Foundation, has noted that the Washington Post could be endowed for $2 billion. Forget for a moment where all those billions would come from. Endowing an entire news staff is a solution that exceeds the ...
But Jacob Hacker, a political science professor at UC Berkeley, believes there are ways of setting up a hybrid system that allows both public and private plans to thrive. An outside body could set rules for both types of plans to follow and prevent the ...
Audacity on steroids. How else to describe the Obama
administration's fiscal 2010 budget proposal, unleashed on an American public
so staggered by the events of the last few months that they cannot comprehend
the magnitude of the plans Mr. Obama and his still-inchoate Cabinet have for
the nation.
"One of the lessons of the current crisis is that there are limits on what we can borrow," says Ray Boshara, director of the Asset Building program at the ...
Len Nichols, a health economist at the New America Foundation and the senior manager of health policy at the White House budget office in 1993 and 1994, ...
Barack Obama wants to give families a refundable $4,000 tax credit for
college, if their children complete a required amount of community service.
It's a fine, conventional Democratic idea. It could be a lot more powerful,
though, if Obama coupled it with an old Republican favorite - depositing his
$4,000 credit into private accounts like the so-called 529 plans that so many
upper-income families use to save for college.
