Bad Policy Begets Insecurity
TheNew York Times isreporting a major spike in aggressive cyber attacks by Iran and China against businesses and government agencies in the United States. “[S]ecurity experts believe,” theTimes reports, that the renewed cyber attacks “have been energized by President Trump’s withdrawal from the Iran nuclear deal last year and his trade conflicts with China.”Chinese cyberespionage cooled four years ago after President Barack Obama and President Xi Jinping of China reached a landmark deal to stop hacks meant to steal trade secrets.But the 2015 agreement appears to have been unofficially canceled amid the continuin...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - February 19, 2019 Category: American Health Authors: John Glaser Source Type: blogs
Wall Emergency, Even If Legal Under Existing Law, Violates the Separation of Powers
Our Constitution divides federal power into three branches of government: the legislative, the executive, and the judicial. One of the powers given exclusively to the legislative branch (Congress) is to spend money, or to appropriate money for the executive branch to spend, in enforcing the law (which is the president ’s power and indeed duty). Specifically, Article I, Section 9 (the Appropriations Clause) says that “No Money shall be drawn from the Treasury, but in Consequence of Appropriations made by Law.” And of course, the purposes for which Congress can exercise this “power of the purse” are enume rated in ...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - February 15, 2019 Category: American Health Authors: Ilya Shapiro Source Type: blogs
Obama Tripled Migrant Processing at Legal Ports —Trump Halved It
ConclusionCongress needs to demand answers on why the Trump administration is processing half as many asylum seekers and undocumented immigrants at ports of entry than the Obama administration did in October 2018. The administration ’s normal responses simply don’t explain it. The processing is far below what it was two years ago, but given that CBP has been turning back migrants since at least May 2016, it needs to explain how it has not found solutions to this problem in the meantime. The agency cannot simply suspend U.S. immigration law for years on end.The anecdotal evidence and the statistics point in a single dir...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - February 8, 2019 Category: American Health Authors: David Bier Source Type: blogs
Watch This Space: 3 Phenomena That Will Drive Health Care Innovation in 2019
By REBECCA FOGG
Back at their desks after the holidays, health care payers, providers and policymakers across the country are staring down their list of 2019 priorities, wondering which they can actually accomplish. Innovation to improve care quality and reduce costs will top many lists, and progress on this front depends, in no small part, on conditions for such innovation in the health care marketplace. Here are three phenomena unfolding there that I’ll be following closely this year to understand what innovators are up against, and how they’re responding.
The legal battle over the Affordable Care Act (ACA). Over ...
Source: The Health Care Blog - January 31, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Obamacare Value-Based Care health innovation Rebecca Fogg value-based payments Source Type: blogs
Kamala Harris Admits “Medicare for All” Would Kill Private Health Insurance — but So Would a “Public Option”
Michael Kinsley memorably quipped, “A gaffe is when a politician tells the truth — some obvious truth he isn’t supposed tosay. ” Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) recently committed a gaffe when she admitted that Sen. Bernie Sanders’ (I-VT) Medicare for All proposal wouldoust close to 200 million Americans from their existing health insurance arrangements, a prospect that causes public support for Medicare for All toplummet from 56 percent to 37 percent. Harris thus helpfully illustrated why Sanders ’ proposal is, to be kind, so pie-in-the-sky bonkers that it would never pass Congress.Indeed, only way Medicare for All ...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - January 31, 2019 Category: American Health Authors: Michael F. Cannon Source Type: blogs
