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Medicaid Expansion’s Recent Popularity Among Voters

Recently, support for Medicaid expansion has grown dramatically, years after the Affordable Care Act (ACA) put it into motion. This fact was on full display when Oklahoma expanded Medicaid by narrowly passing a ballot measure, which will, in 2021, make at least...

COVID-19 Risks vs. Growth Continuum

As America continues to take action to slow the spread of the coronavirus and Congress works through its next steps on COVID-19 response, a new debate is beginning over the health and economic tradeoffs of prevention measures like social distancing and business...

A Note from FTP on COVID-19

Our founding members Jeffrey Forbes and Dan Tate Jr. sent this note to clients earlier today regarding the latest on DC’s response to COVID19. Friends, With the number of COVID-19 cases continuing to surge, national, state and local policymakers are working to address...

Governors Move Forward on Health Care Agenda Without New Federal Programs

As the nation’s governors gather this week for their annual meeting in Washington, much of the talk, as usual, will focus on health care. Democratic governors, in particular, are putting forward proposals to make health care more accessible and affordable,...

Repeal & Replace: From One Republican To Another, How Did It Fail And What Can We Learn?

Republican efforts to repeal the Affordable Care Act (ACA), commonly referred to as Obamacare, went down in flames this past month. But, why did their efforts fail? What lessons did we learn from this failure? And how can those lessons learned be applied to current...

Washington desperately needs a win: How about paid family leave?

We have had Governors, business leaders, Members of Congress, Presidential candidates and Administrations from both parties call for paid family leave but it still can not break through in Washington. Just this past month, in true bipartisan fashion, AEI and Brookings...