op-Ed’s – Blase Policy Strategies

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May 2020

A New Recipe for Waste in Medicaid

The Democrats’ plan would have Washington cover all the health program’s costs for the states this year. By Brian Blase The …

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04

May 2020

Now Democrats want taxpayers to subsidize insurance companies

By Brian Blase In the era of coronavirus bailouts, every group is staking a claim. Shuttered businesses and idled workers have …

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07

Apr 2020

Congress Can Still Save the Recovery

By Casey B. Mulligan and Brian Blase The coronavirus has crushed the U.S. economy, and the legislative remedies Congress recently passed will make …

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03

Apr 2020

How The Uninsured Can Gain Financial Protection From The Virus

By Brian Blase At Wednesday’s news conference, President Trump and Vice-President Pence were asked about their plan to best protect the …

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Mar 2020

Cover Coronavirus Treatments, Don’t Expand Medicaid

By Brian Blase We need to be smart about how we use public resources to respond to the coronavirus outbreak. Two …

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19

Mar 2020

Congress Must Cut Red Tape that Reduces the Effectiveness of Our COVID-19 Response

By Brian Blase State and federal laws and regulations are hindering the private sector’s efforts to help fight the outbreak. Effectively responding …

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13

Mar 2020

A Smarter Approach to Offering States Federal COVID-19 Relief Funds

By Brian Blase Rather than merely spraying money at the states, Congress must target funding to those places that need it …

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12

Feb 2020

Reform the Federal-State Medicaid Partnership to Better Help Those in Need and Save Money

By Brian Blase President Donald Trump’s budget includes Medicaid reforms that would restore accountability and improve the federal-state partnership. Predictably, the …

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17

Dec 2019

Spending Deal Would Make Obamacare More Fiscally Irresponsible

By Brian Blase In selling Obamacare before Congress a decade ago, President Barack Obama promised that he “would not sign a plan that …

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30

Nov 2019

New York City is a hot spot for illegal Medicaid enrollment

By Brian Blase New York state is grappling with a Medicaid shortfall in the billions of dollars. And one of the …

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18

Nov 2019

Why Obama Stopped Auditing Medicaid

By Brian Blase and Aaron Yelowitz Medicaid expansion was a key component of ObamaCare. In 2014 when the expansion started, the feds …

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10

Nov 2019

Biden’s Plan for Health is Already a Failure

By Brian Blase Most Democratic presidential candidates are supporting some version of Medicare for All, a radical proposal to put Washington …

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23

Oct 2019

Not ‘Junk’: Setting the Record Straight on Short-Term Health Coverage Plans

By Brian Blase Several Democrats on a House Energy and Commerce subcommittee at a hearing Wednesday derided short-term health-insurance plans as …

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12

Oct 2019

How price transparency would revolutionize healthcare

By Brian Blase Price transparency will lead to lower healthcare costs — against the wishes of hospitals and insurance companies. In …

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12

Oct 2019

How price transparency would revolutionize healthcare

By Brian Blase In his recent speech on health care, President Trump highlighted a proposed rule that hospitals make their prices …

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21

Sep 2019

Five smart ways Trump has improved our health care system

By Brian Blase Good politics involves consistent, simple messages. Opponents of the Trump administration believe they have found one with health …

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14

Aug 2019

ObamaCare’s Medicaid Deception

By Brian Blase and Aaron Yelowitz States cover millions who exceed income thresholds, some quite well-heeled. ObamaCare wasn’t supposed to give free health insurance …

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14

Aug 2019

ObamaCare’s Medicaid Deception

By Brian Blase and Aaron Yelowitz ObamaCare wasn’t supposed to give free health insurance to everybody. The Affordable Care Act’s authors …

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24

Jul 2019

Improve, Don’t Repeal, ObamaCare’s Cadillac Tax

By Brian Blase There’s one provision of ObamaCare almost everyone wants to repeal. Last week the House voted 419-6 to repeal …

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24

Jul 2019

Improve, Don’t Repeal, ObamaCare’s Cadillac Tax

By Brian Blase There’s one provision of ObamaCare almost everyone wants to repeal. Last week the House voted 419-6 to repeal …

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14

Jun 2019

Trump’s new rule will give businesses and workers better health care options

By Brain Blase When President Trump took office, small businesses and hard-working, middle-class families were finding it increasingly difficult to afford …

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14

Jul 2017

The fundamental error in the CBO’s health-care projections

By Brain Blase and Marc Short Marc Short is assistant to the president for White House legislative affairs. Brian Blase is …

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08

Jan 2017

How New York’s Bloated Medicaid Program Punishes New Jersey and Other States

By Brian Blase Tony Soprano would be outraged; Governor Chris Christie and New Jersey’s congressional delegation should be. Every year, the …

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02

Jan 2017

Learning from CBO’s History of Incorrect ACA Projections

By Brian Blase As Congress readies legislation to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act (ACA), Congressional Budget Office (CBO) estimates …

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15

Dec 2016

The ACA’s Failure and Moving Health Care Policy in a New Direction

By Brian Blase As a result of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), many people are newly enrolled in the Medicaid program …

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14

Dec 2016

Replacing the Affordable Care Act the Right Way

By Brian Blase Repealing and replacing the Affordable Care Act (ACA) has been announced as one of Washington’s top priorities for …

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07

Dec 2016

Discount Urban’s ACA Projections Based on Large Previous Errors

By Brian Blase The Urban Institute released a new analysis yesterday of the impact of a bill that Congress passed last year to …

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28

Nov 2016

New Gruber Study Raises Major Questions About ACA’s Medicaid Expansion

By Brian Blase A new study by Jonathan Gruber, one of the Affordable Care Act’s (ACA) chief economic architects, suggests that roughly two-thirds …

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21

Nov 2016

A Taxpayer Bailout of ACA Insurers Just Got a Lot More Expensive

By Brian Blase The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) finally released the 2015 Affordable Care Act (ACA) risk corridor data. …

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02

Nov 2016

ACA Plan Premiums in 2017 Higher than Expected and for Worse Coverage

By Brian Blase As premiums for Affordable Care Act (ACA) insurance plans skyrocket across the country, the Department of Health and Human Services …

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