Sen. Orrin Hatch: Affordable Care Act disastrous — We need real change
It’s my hope, and the hope of so many Utahns I’ve heard from, that President Obama and his allies in Congress will finally work with us to repeal Obamacare and reform our system in a way that Utahns and Americans everywhere deserve.
Look to Utah, Mr. President
I’d hoped that President Obama, in his State of the Union address, would offer a real path to greater prosperity to the millions of Americans looking for a better future — a good-paying job, access to affordable education and health care, and greater economic security for their children. Unfortunately, his Tuesday-night speech was designed more […]
Keep Americans’ personal data safe — delay ObamaCare exchanges
Just about every week Americans learn about another problem with ObamaCare. Employer mandate? Delayed. Small business health insurance market? Delayed. Automatic enrollment? That’s right, delayed. Study after study and expert after expert has sounded the alarm on ObamaCare’s failings and the monumental implementation challenges that go with it. This shouldn’t come as much surprise given […]
Tax Reform Is Very Much Alive and Doable
Every week Congress has been in session for the past two years, one of us has made the short walk across the Capitol to the other’s office. We crowd into a room with our policy experts to chart a path to our mutual goal—comprehensive tax reform. While we are from different political parties, we agree […]
Transatlantic trade deal is a US priority
After almost four years of digging their way out of the global financial crisis, the US and the EU are eager to get their economies growing. Increased trade is crucial to a balanced plan for stimulating growth and job creation on both sides of the Atlantic. A comprehensive transatlantic trade and investment deal would not only lower […]
Republicans and Russia
Who says Congress never does anything? On Wednesday the Senate Finance Committee voted unanimously to expand trade with Russia while including an important human-rights codicil. If reluctant House Republicans now act, Vladimir Putin will have something to think about. The Senate bill establishes permanent normal trade relations with Russia, which is needed if the U.S. […]
Russia offers economic opportunity
By Sen. Max Baucus and Sen. John Kerry Our respective Senate committees are charged with overseeing the engines of America’s unique role in the world: as global trading partner, the leading democracy and a force for international peace. We clearly see how our global economic interests and our foreign policy values are closely tied — […]
Tax Policy is About Competition, Not Fairness
‘The economy is like a regular .300 hitter who only batted .250 and then slumped to .230.” So said Walter Heller, chairman of President John F. Kennedy’s Council of Economic Advisers, about the U.S. economy in 1961, when growth was anemic and unemployment had hit 7%. He could have said the same after last Friday’s […]
Hurray for Health Reform
It’s said that you can judge a man by the quality of his enemies. If the same principle applies to legislation, the Affordable Care Act — which was signed into law two years ago, but for the most part has yet to take effect — sits in a place of high honor. Now, the act […]
This cost-cutting reform deserves a chance
ONE OF THE MOST promising cost-control measures in the new health-care law is an entity called the Independent Payment Advisory Board, or IPAB. To be launched in 2015, IPAB will have the authority, if growth in health-care costs exceeds a certain target, to recommend changes to the Medicare program. Those changes would take effect automatically […]