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How Much Will We Spend on Health Care?
(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University, 2016-10-10)
This atypical election cycle has diverted attention from the growing evidence that premiums for health insurance sold on the exchanges are rising while options have declined. Health expenditures are also again growing ...
Paying for Medicare Now and in the Future
(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University, 2016-03-01)
Medicare celebrated its golden anniversary this past year. The program now provides insurance coverage for over 50 million Americans, and accounts for 20 percent of the nation's health care spending. Its shares of the ...
Federal Liabilities: They're Bigger than You May Think
(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University, 2014-09-01)
Is Social Security Wealth?
(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University, 2015-05-01)
Federal Liabilities 2015 Update
(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University, 2015-07-01)
A Primer on Measures of Government Financing Shortfalls and Liabilities
(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University, 2016-08-01)
This note presents measures of financing shortfalls and liabilities, both for an individual government program such as Social Security and for government financing as a whole. At the level of individual programs, the widely ...
Is Social Security Wealth?
(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University, 2016-04-01)
Wealth inequality has grown significantly over the last three decades and there are growing concerns about the diminishing wealth share of the middle class. Standard wealth definitions require that individuals possess a ...
The Carrot and the Stick of Medicaid Expansion
(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University, 2014-05-01)
Moving Up
(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University, 2015-09-01)
America prides itself as a place where people who work hard and don't quit can move up. However, there are concerns growing economic inequality has stymied economic mobility. This issue of PERCspectives on Policy identifies ...
Migration Nation
(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University, 2016-01-01)
Every year thousands of Americans move across county lines. In general, non-migrants experience higher average incomes than their migrant counterparts. This issue of PERCspectives on Policy explores how migrants and ...