PUBLICATIONS BY Paul L. Winfree
Research
2009 Research
October 15, 2009
Adding Insult to Injury: The Baucus Health Plan Imposes New Taxes on the Sick
By Robert A. Book, Ph.D., Guinevere L. Nell, and Paul L. Winfree
(WebMemo #2651)
The Baucus health care plan would harm those it should help and help those who need help the least.
September 25, 2009
Baucus Plan Increases Out-of-Pocket Costs for Many Families
By Rea S. Hederman, Jr., and Paul L. Winfree
(WebMemo #2628)
The mandates in Senate Finance Chairman Max Baucus's health care reform bill will hurt individuals, families, and businesses.
September 25, 2009
The Baucus Individual Health Insurance Mandate: Taxing Low-Income and Moderate-Income Workers
By Robert A. Book, Ph.D., Guinevere Nell, and Paul L. Winfree
(Backgrounder #2325)
The individual mandate in the Baucus health care plan would impose punitively high, regressive taxes on low-income and moderate-income working families. Its penalties and additional taxes on business would discourage companies from hiring or continuing to employ low-income and moderate-income workers. The plan would substantially raise health insurance premiums. Yet the plan would still leave millions of Americans without access to affordable health insurance. Adding to their misfortune, it would then punish them with a tax penalty precisely because they are uninsured.
July 01, 2009
How Reforms to the Tax Treatment of Health Insurance Benefit the Middle Class
By Greg D’Angelo, Rea S. Hederman, Jr., and Paul L. Winfree
(WebMemo #2518)
Health reform proposals recently introduced in Congress--such as the Patients' Choice Act of 2009--seek to replace the current income tax exclusion with a fairer, flatter form of tax relief for all Americans regardless of job status.
February 26, 2009
Does employer-sponsored health insurance reduce job mobility?
By Paul L. Winfree
(White Paper #9999)
How the health insurance system influences the likelihood of changing jobs and becoming self-employed
January 28, 2009
Economic Stimulus Pushed by Flawed Jobs Analysis
By Curtis Dubay, Karen Campbell, Ph.D., and Paul Winfree
(WebMemo #2252)
The Obama Administration and Members of Congress are relying on a flawed report as evidence of the effectiveness of the stimulus plan. The report should not be trusted. It is based on faulty assumptions that even the authors admit create significant margins of error.
January 26, 2009
The New SCHIP Bill: The Senate Must Protect Private Coverage
By Paul L. Winfree and Greg D’Angelo
(WebMemo #2246)
When the Senate considers the House legislation or a companion proposal to expand SCHIP to children in families with higher incomes, it should recognize that public program expansions would result in "crowd-out."
2008 Research
December 08, 2008
Bankruptcy of Detroit’s Big Three Automobile Companies: New Economic Impact Estimates
By Karen A. Campbell, Ph.D., and Paul L. Winfree
(WebMemo #2160)
Ford, General Motors, and Chrysler rely heavily on a study by the Center for Automotive Research in making their case for a financial bailout. This report claims that the simultaneous failure of these three companies would result in a loss of 3.3 million jobs nationally in the same year as the company shutdowns. However, this estimate is based on highly dubious assumptions.
October 24, 2008
The Obama Health Care Plan: A Closer Look at Cost and Coverage
By Greg D'Angelo and Paul Winfree
(WebMemo #2114)
Barack Obama's health care plan would reduce the number of insured, but it would not control costs in any significant way. In fact, it would require considerable increases in federal expenditures.
October 24, 2008
The McCain Health Care Plan: A Closer Look at Cost and Coverage
By Greg D'Angelo and Paul Winfree
(WebMemo #2115)
John McCain’s health care plan would reduce the number of uninsured and help control costs, yet it would, as currently designed, require considerable increases in federal expenditures.
September 16, 2008
Free-Market Philanthropy: The Social Aspect of Entrepreneurship
By Guinevere Nell, James Sherk, and Paul L. Winfree
(Center for Data Analysis Report #08-07)
An enduring criticism of free markets is that they are based on self-centered greed. However, the philanthropic actions of entrepreneurs, measured by the size of their charitable contributions as a portion of income, are 80 percent greater than the rest of the population. This suggests that those who benefit the most from the free market give the most back.
2007 Research
September 19, 2007
SCHIP and "Crowd-Out": The High Cost of Expanding Eligibility
By Paul L. Winfree and Greg D'Angelo
(WebMemo #1627)
Expanding SCHIP to cover children in higher income families is not an efficient or cost-effective way to reduce the number of uninsured children.
May 31, 2007
Analyzing Economic Mobility: Measuring Inequality and Economic Mobility
By Paul Winfree
(WebMemo #1478)
There is no comprehensive measure of economic inequality and mobility, but several metrics, used together, can give a more complete picture.
November 20, 2009
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