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Articles by Kathryn Nix

Social Security Shortfall Is Real and Best Addressed Now

Kathryn Nix | November 18, 2010

Both liberals and conservatives agree that Social Security’s coming fiscal problems need to be addressed soon or they will only grow worse. A recent analysis… Read More

Soaking the Rich Would Not Solve the Long-Term Deficit Crisis

Kathryn Nix | November 18, 2010

Earlier this week, we reported on The New York Times’s “deficit puzzle,” which allows you to close both the short-term and long-term budget gaps for… Read More

Breaking Health Care Research: Repealing Obamacare and Getting Health Care Right

Kathryn Nix | November 17, 2010

As newly elected lawmakers prepare for the hard work to be done in the next Congress, the future of the hugely unpopular Patient Protection and… Read More

The Berwick Hearing’s Best Focus: Obamacare’s Effects on Doctors and Patients

Kathryn Nix | November 17, 2010

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Administrator Dr. Donald Berwick this morning is expected to testify before Congress in his first appearance since… Read More

Side Effects: AARP Employees Face Premium Hikes As Result of New Law

Kathryn Nix | November 16, 2010

Health care reform was supposed to “bend the cost curve” in health care and reduce the amount that American families pay in health care premiums. … Read More

Obamacare, Save Money? Not Likely.

Kathryn Nix | November 16, 2010

Newly-elected conservatives heading to Washington next year have a lot to do to curb the size of government and get federal deficits under control. Requisite… Read More

How Would You Reduce the Deficit?

Kathryn Nix | November 16, 2010

Last week, the co-chairs of the President’s deficit commission released a report of possible proposals for the commission’s final report. Recommendations included cuts to discretionary,… Read More

Side Effects: Obamacare Accelerates Hospital Job Losses

Kathryn Nix | November 15, 2010

Repeatedly, reports have shown that Obamacare will increase job loss. But what happens when those who are laid off are the workers meant to enable… Read More

Side Effects: Obamacare Encourages States to Drop Medicaid

Kathryn Nix | November 09, 2010

Because of Obamacare, states are considering dropping out of Medicaid, the federal-state health program for the poor, rather than deal with the additional fiscal strain… Read More

Fighting Social Security Reform Is the Worst Thing Lawmakers Can Do for Seniors

Kathryn Nix | November 08, 2010

When the next Congress arrives in Washington, Members will need to get to work to reduce runaway government spending. One area that has been identified… Read More

Side Effects: Bad News for New Mexico Residents Who Like Their Current Health Plan

Kathryn Nix | November 03, 2010

Once again, the promise that Americans can keep the health coverage they like under Obamacare has been broken. National Health Insurance, Aetna, John Alden, and… Read More

Is Orszag Proposing Medical Malpractice Reform or Something Else?

Kathryn Nix | November 02, 2010

Former Office for Management and Budget Director Peter Orszag recently wrote an opinion piece in The New York Times on the need for medical malpractice… Read More

Side Effects: Now Even Democrats Are Voicing Concern About Obamacare’s Consequences

Kathryn Nix | November 02, 2010

Imagine that one day, your boss takes you out to coffee. You offer to pick up the tip as a contribution. The two of you… Read More

Obamacare Frankenstein Is Scarier Than “Zombie Legislation”

Kathryn Nix | October 25, 2010

In a recent article in the New England Journal of Medicine, Henry J. Aaron, senior fellow in economic studies at the Brookings Institution, writes that… Read More

Side Effects: Obamacare Strengthens Compliance-Based Medicine

Kathryn Nix | October 22, 2010

Obamacare alters the practice medicine by putting a stronger emphasis on adherence to government-determined measures of quality. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS)… Read More

Settling the Question of a Real Estate Tax in Obamacare

Kathryn Nix | October 22, 2010

By now, Americans have become well acquainted with the fact that the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) will have a multitude of adverse… Read More

Side Effects: Obamacare Hurts Low-Income Workers

Kathryn Nix | October 21, 2010

With a struggling economy and stagnant unemployment rate, the last thing the United States needs is any public policy that will hurt job growth. Unfortunately,… Read More

Government Intervention in Health Care Increases Costs

Kathryn Nix | October 21, 2010

Yesterday, the Council for Affordable Health Insurance (CAHI) released its annual report on health insurance mandates in the states. They report that mandated benefits—i.e., medical… Read More

Raising Taxes Won’t Stimulate the Economy

Kathryn Nix | October 15, 2010

Earlier this week, Maya MacGuineas, a fiscal policy expert at the New America Foundation, ranked Congress’s options in addressing the pending expiration of the 2001… Read More

Addressing the Debt Now Means Addressing It on Our Own Terms

Kathryn Nix | October 15, 2010

The 2010 fiscal year just ended, but America’s fiscal crisis has just begun. In 2010, the Congressional Budget Office’s (CBO) preliminary estimates show that the… Read More

The Verdict Is In: Medicare Advantage Will Suffer Under Obamacare

Kathryn Nix | October 15, 2010

The outlook for seniors’ Medicare Advantage (MA) plans is grim under the new health care law. Though seniors’ premiums will drop 1 percent in the… Read More

Side Effects: How Government Micromanagement Could Discourage Access to Some Preventive Services

Kathryn Nix | October 14, 2010

A recent letter from the Congressional Research Service (CRS) reveals how Obamacare will erode patients’ access to certain preventive services. The new health care law… Read More

New, Useful Tool to Keep Up with the Health Care Lawsuits

Kathryn Nix | October 14, 2010

Since the passage of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, states and individuals have been on the offensive against the new law and many… Read More

Side Effects: Obamacare Compels More Employers to Dump Coverage

Kathryn Nix | October 06, 2010

Obamacare has struck again. Last week, 3M announced plans to drop health benefits for retirees, citing the new law’s impact as a contributor in its… Read More

Side Effects: Obamacare Fails to Halt Rising Premiums

Kathryn Nix | October 04, 2010

President Obama and his supporters have said that one of the major benefits of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act would be a drop… Read More

Side Effects: Massachusetts Seniors Will Lose Medicare Advantage Plans in 2011

Kathryn Nix | September 30, 2010

President Barack Obama’s promise that “if you like it you can keep it” may be this generation’s “read my lips—no new taxes,” claim. New Centers… Read More

Side Effects: Doughnut Hole Deal Not so Sweet

Kathryn Nix | September 28, 2010

Currently 3.4 million Americans seniors covered by Medicare find themselves in a giant “doughnut hole,” but despite the tasty terminology, there’s nothing sweet about it…. Read More

The Lower Spending Solution to Deficits

Kathryn Nix | September 28, 2010

With the expiration of the 2001 and 2003 tax cuts fast approaching, the debate over whether to extend the cuts, and for whom, has taken… Read More

Side Effects: Premiums Will Rise Because of Obamacare

Kathryn Nix | September 23, 2010

By now, most Americans who have been following the effects of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) realize that the health care overhaul… Read More

The Fight to Protect Your Employee Health Care Coverage

Kathryn Nix | September 23, 2010

A year ago, the President addressed Congress and the American people to explain his vision for the health care plan that would later be signed… Read More

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