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
Nov 04, 2009 |
Terry Neese On the Estate TaxMadam Chairwoman and members of the Committee, thank you for inviting me today and giving me the opportunity to discuss the detrimental impact of the estate tax on small businesses and their families. Today, I am speaking on behalf of the National Center for Policy Analysis (NCPA), a nonprofit, nonpartisan public policy research organization dedicated to developing and promoting private alternatives to government regulation and control. NCPA recently started the Family Policy Center, which focuses on finding private solutions to issues faced by women, families, and small businesses. |
Jun 24, 2009 |
Health Information Technology: What’s the cost to small businesses?Madam Chairwoman and members of the Subcommittee, thank you for the opportunity to join in the debate as you consider different options for adopting health information technology (HIT) and the implementation of policies in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA). We represent the National Center for Policy Analysis, a nonprofit, nonpartisan public policy research organization dedicated to developing and promoting private alternatives to government regulation and control, solving problems by relying on the strength of the competitive, entrepreneurial private sector. |
Jun 23, 2009 |
Health Care Reform: Do Other Countries Have the Answers?The health care systems of all developed countries face three unrelenting problems: rising costs, inadequate quality, and incomplete access to care. Much analysis published in medical journals suggests that other countries have found superior solutions to these problems. This conclusion is at odds with economic research that is published in journals physicians seldom read, using methodologies that are unfamiliar to physicians. |
Apr 13, 2009 |
EPA Considers California Greenhouse Gas WaiverThe National Center for Policy Analysis appreciates the opportunity to comment on the President's request to the EPA to reconsider its previous denial of California's 2005 Waiver of Federal Preemption under Section 209(b) of the Clean Air Act. We would like to take this opportunity to caution EPA Administrator Jackson against reversing the denial of the request made by former EPA Administrator Johnson in 2008. |
Apr 02, 2009 |
Making Health Care Work For American Families: Saving Money, Saving LivesTo confront America's health care crisis, we do not need more spending, more regulations or more bureaucracy. We do need people, however, including every doctor and every patient. Every American must be free to use their intelligence, their creativity and their innovative ability to make the changes needed to create access to low-cost, high-quality health care. |
Mar 31, 2009 |
Empowering Patients and Improving Public HealthPublic health plays an important role in our overall health care system. Several significant achievements are directly attributable to public health. For instance, the response to the London cholera epidemics of the late 1800s is a well-known, classic example of public health. In that case, no single individual had an incentive to bear the full cost of repairing sewer lines that were leaking into the water supply because all the costs would be borne by the repairer, while the benefits would accrue to community at large. Thus, keeping community water supplies free from sewage contamination became a public health matter, as opposed to a private health matter. |
Mar 19, 2009 |
Small Business And Economic RecoveryI am Terry Neese, a distinguished fellow at the National Center for Policy Analysis and "serial entrepreneur." NCPA is a nonprofit, nonpartisan public policy research organization dedicated to developing and promoting private alternatives to government regulation and control. We provide policy ideas that help women, families and small businesses remain an active, productive part of our economy, solving public policy problems by relying on the strength of the competitive, entrepreneurial private sector. |
Mar 12, 2009 |
Protecting Lower-Income Families from the Consequences of Climate Change LegislationMr. Chairman and members of the Subcommittee, please accept my comments for the record regarding the March 12 hearing on the effects of climate change legislation on low and moderateincome families. I am Dr. Sterling Burnett, a senior fellow of the National Center for Policy Analysis, a nonprofit, nonpartisan public policy research organization dedicated to developing and promoting private alternatives to government regulation and control, solving problems by relying on the strength of the competitive, entrepreneurial private sector. |
Mar 12, 2009 |
MARK-TO-MARKET ACCOUNTING: Practices and ImplicationsWhen I moved to Texas in 1991, someone gave me a little book of Texas wisdom titled, "Don't Squat with Your Spurs On." Among its nuggets of wisdom was this one: "No matter who says what, if it don't make sense, don't believe it." What's been going on with mark-to-market accounting doesn't make sense to me. |
Feb 04, 2009 |
Health Care Reform In A Struggling Economy: What Is On The Horizon For Small Business?This Committee knows better than most that small business employees are much less likely to have access to employer-sponsored health coverage than the employees of larger firms. According to the Kaiser Family Foundation... |
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