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Health policy issues and the 2016 presidential election
Health policy has become a highly charged partisan issue in American politics. Each party claims its policies will improve the quality, efficiency, and availability of American health care, while the...
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Progress on health care will take hard work and bipartisan cooperation
The next president and Congress will face serious decisions about our nation’s healthcare, including the future of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), the solvency of Medicare, and how to slow the rising...
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How to create TrumpCare and make it great
In the campaign, President-elect Donald Trump vowed to repeal ObamaCare and replace it with “something great.” His campaign website said all Americans deserved high quality, affordable health care. As...
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Why repealing the ACA before replacing it won’t work, and what might
With Republicans now in control of the Presidency, Senate, and House of Representatives, they have the opportunity to fulfill their repeated promise to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act (ACA)....
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What’s the biggest test Trump will face in 2017? ‘Bipartisan support’ for...
President-elect Trump created a huge challenge for himself by vowing to repeal Obamacare and replace it with “something great,” with details to follow the election. Now he must deliver without creating...
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Unfinished business: Bipartisan help for child victims of the opioid crisis
In the wake of the partisan 2016 election, there is an urgent need for the parties to start solving problems together again. Helping children whose futures are threatened by the opioid crisis is...
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What worked and what didn’t in Obamacare insurance markets?
As the new administration and Congress debate repealing and replacing the Affordable Care Act (ACA), there is intense discussion of how the law actually worked. Obamacare fundamentally changed health...
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On Paul Ryan’s suggestion of ‘collapsing’ Obamacare
Alice Rivlin, senior fellow in Economic Studies and the Center for Health Policy, addresses House Speaker Paul Ryan’s comment that Obamacare is ‘collapsing’ and examines the impact of repealing the...
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How has Obamacare impacted state health care marketplaces?
The Affordable Care Act (ACA) changed the nature of competition among health plans by creating regulated insurance exchanges, introducing new insurance industry regulations, and providing premium and...
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Why is it so hard for Republicans to replace Obamacare?
Author Alice M. Rivlin Senior Fellow - Economic Studies, Center for Health Policy Republicans in Congress have been attacking Obamacare and vowing to repeal it for nearly seven years, and President...
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Fixing, or replacing, the Affordable Care Act
Alice Rivlin, senior fellow in Economic Studies and the Center for Health Policy, addresses the claim that the Affordable Care Act is “collapsing,” and provides her expert analysis on what actions the...
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Credit rating agency reform is incomplete
Authors Alice M. Rivlin Senior Fellow - Economic Studies, Center for Health Policy John B. Soroushian In the on-going controversy over how strictly to regulate financial institutions and markets in...
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Don’t undermine the Congressional Budget Office. Use it.
Author Alice M. Rivlin Senior Fellow - Economic Studies, Center for Health Policy Congress faces a daunting legislative agenda. Health care is “complicated,” as President Trump discovered. So are tax...
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On Trump’s budget proposal
Alice Rivlin, founding director of the Congressional Budget Office and senior fellow in the Center for Health Policy in Economic Studies, examines Trump’s bold budget proposal and its position within...
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Trump must recognize that national power goes beyond the military
Authors Michael E. O’Hanlon Senior Fellow - Foreign Policy, Center for 21st Century Security and IntelligenceDirector of Research - Foreign PolicyCo-Director - Center for 21st Century Security and...
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Coping with change at an independent fiscal institution
Alice Rivlin delivered the following keynote address at the 9th annual meeting of OECD Parliamentary Budget Officials and Independent Fiscal Institutions on April 6, 2017 in Edinburgh, Scotland. I am...
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Seeking a policy response to the robot takeover
We could soon be living in a world in which driverless vehicles or drones make all deliveries. Those vans and big rigs on the interstates will barrel along to their destinations without drivers; the...
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Rivlin: ‘Congratulations on choosing public policy’
Author Alice M. Rivlin Senior Fellow - Economic Studies, Center for Health Policy Graduates and members of the McCourt School extended family: I have taught at McCourt School as a part-time visiting...
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How Republicans can save their health care legacy
If some version of the Republican reconciliation bill to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act (ACA) squeaks through both the Senate and the House after the July 4 recess, it will be the first...
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Republicans’ wrong approach to tackling Medicaid
By Alice M. Rivlin The high decibel fight in the Senate over Medicaid is one more example—did we need more?—of why lasting changes in social programs require thoughtful legislative deliberation leading...
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