After surviving near-death experiences on Capitol Hill, in the Supreme Court, and during the presidential election, the Affordable Care Act is now confronted with unanticipated sabotage in conservative state capitols. The passive aggression of many Republican governors and state legislatures, who are balking at implementing key elements of the law, threatens to create severe political […]
Greg Anrig
Greg Anrig is the vice president for policy and programs at the Century Foundation.
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Paradox of Deregulation
Why market fundamentalism eventually leads to more government, not less.
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An Idea Whose Time Has Gone
n 1955, the libertarian economist Milton Friedman proposed what was, for its time, a radical idea: that schoolchildren be given government-funded vouchers to enable them to attend private schools. As ubiquitous as the notion of “school choice” has since become, Friedman’s suggestion didn’t immediately catch on, remaining mostly confined to academia for well over a […]
