The NCPA has a highly effective office in Washington, D.C. that sponsors Capitol Hill briefings, conferences and testimony by NCPA experts before congressional committees. The NCPA serves as a source of "outside the Beltway" thinking for Capitol Hill deliberations.

Testimonies and Speeches

Jan 10, 2007

Statement on Consumer Driven Health Care

Health care is on a course to crowd out every other government program - from education and roads and bridges to Social Security and national defense.  And for the economy as a whole, health care is on a course to crowd.

Dec 06, 2006

Climate Change and the Media

There is an overwhelming bias today in the media regarding the issue of global warming.

Sep 26, 2006

Statement on Health Savings Accounts

Government at all levels in the United States currently spends about 7.2 percent of gross domestic product (GDP) on health care, mainly on Medicare and Medicaid.  Yet Christian Hagist and Laurence J. Kotlikoff have shown that if benefits expand at the rate of the past 30 years and if the population ages the way demographers predict, government health care spending will equal one-third of national income by mid-century, when today's college students reach the retirement age.

Jul 26, 2006

A New Frontier for Health and Human Services

The new Texas integrated eligibility and enrollment system is a good program, based on sound policy, and should continue its course to improve the ways over three million Texans apply for and receive social services. 

Jul 19, 2006

Questions Surrounding the "Hockey Stick" Temperature Studies: Implications for Climate Change Assessments

There are serious questions about the "hockey stick" and the reliability of the conclusions that many have used to propose environmental policies to control global temperature.

Jun 28, 2006

Making HSAs Better

Ideal reform in this country would allow unlimited contributions to HSAs and permit such accounts to wrap around third-party insurance - paying for any expense the insurance plan does not pay.

Mar 15, 2006

Shopping for Health Care

Will consumers some day be able to shop for health care the way they shop for groceries? As farfetched as that idea may seem, some believe it will become a reality.

Jun 16, 2005

Testimony: Subcommittee on Social Security, Committee on Ways and Means

Over the past 20 years more than 30 countries, spread across Latin America, Eastern, Central and Western Europe, Australia and Hong Kong, have added funded privately managed plans to their mandatory social security systems.

May 19, 2005

Baby Boomer Retirement: The Nightmare in our Future

In the United States, we have made promises to senior citizens that far exceed what we can pay for at current tax rates. As a result, future retirees will have to rely more on private savings than previous generations. For this reason, we need programs that encourage private sector saving.

May 05, 2005

Testimony: House Committee on Financial Services

Over the past 20 years more than 30 countries, spread across Latin America, Eastern and Western Europe, Australia and Hong Kong, have adopted social security systems that include funded privately managed plans, usually based on personal accounts. Contributions to the accounts range from 2.5% to 12.5% of wages and they are projected to supply between 30% and 80% of total benefits.

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