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.

• 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.