Jeremy Nighohossian
@JNighohossian
Senior Fellow and Economist in Health Care Policy at the Competitive Enterprise Institute https://cei.org/experts/jeremy-nighohossian/
This I believe, people make mistakes, and it nearly always matters more how we respond to those mistakes than the mistake itself. In the matter of questions that affect the institutions shaping public life, similar to the private sphere of life, we need mechanisms to identify…
How do we assess the real burden of regulation - not just paperwork, but the burden of regulatory guidance and interpretation, regulation imposed by contract, and that which comes with grants and subsidies? @wayne_crews formulates The Dreck Equation forbes.com/sites/waynecre…
It applies to healthcare the same way it applies to housing: price controls don’t work. Yet the entire US healthcare system is modeled around centrally planned price controls. Every single thing a doctor does, every type of hospital admission, all has a centrally planned value…
Shocking, really shocking that a price cap reduces supply and makes things worse. If socialists understood economics, they wouldn’t be socialists.
96% of rural hospitals qualify for extra funding through Medicare. Plus disproportionate share payments, 340B discounts, and various other programs. If anything, we probably need to streamline support for rural hospitals not create new programs.
In my pieces on Medicaid, I have frequently pointed out the existence of doubly enrolled recipients. Neither the CBO nor the researchers of mortality nor the many, many other commentators ever acknowledged this. Going forward, such estimates should factor this in.
CMS found 2.8 million Americans enrolled in two or more Medicaid or ACA plans - wasting over $14 Billion in taxpayer funding! This is exactly why we fought for stronger tools in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act. cms.gov/newsroom/press…
This @ceidotorg report (linked below) is interesting reading and highlights just how problematic subsidies can be. Subsidies are everywhere. In a perfect world, there would be none, and we’d have a low tax rate and a broad base. Regrettably, we do not live in a perfect world.
👉Corporate welfare isn't socially responsible👈 That's the main point of a new report from @RichardMorrison and myself published today by @ceidotorg. In it, we propose a new way to think about interactions between governments & businesses in the name of "economic development."
Many such cases, @AStuttaford
The anti-car people spend an awful lot of time telling people their preferences are wrong
It was a great experience co-authoring with the smart and principled defender of taxpayers @johnmoz. CEOs of America: It's not too late to ditch unpopular ESG policies and embrace true responsible business instead!
👉Corporate welfare isn't socially responsible👈 That's the main point of a new report from @RichardMorrison and myself published today by @ceidotorg. In it, we propose a new way to think about interactions between governments & businesses in the name of "economic development."
Raising the minimum wage sounds good but in practice, it often backfires. California’s $20 fast-food wage led to 18,000 job losses, reduced hours, cut benefits, and higher prices. Low-income families are hit hardest. Real help means growing better jobs, not just mandating pay.…
Over 180 suppliers, in 20 countries, across 4 continents. Yeah, not diverse at all.
.@Apple’s failure to diversify its supply chain has allowed the CCP to make China into the global tech powerhouse it is today. Apple is no longer an American company. Thus, any assistance the US gives it only helps our greatest foreign adversary & puts us further away from a true…
Lawmakers continue to embrace incoherent tech policy @alex_reinauer @ceidotorg cei.org/blog/lawmakers…
CEI’s @JNighohossian explains why claims of a $1T Medicaid “cut” are misleading. The reforms delay rules that never took effect, close a funding loophole, and add work requirements for able-bodied adults. These are structural fixes—not actual benefit cuts. @InsideSourcesDC…
One woman. 23 letters. A president changed. After President Garfield’s assassination, Chester Arthur deeply tied to political corruption rose to power. But Julia Sand, a private citizen, believed he could do better. Her letters inspired him to pursue reform and leave a lasting…
I mean, just how does the 50% tariff on Brazil relate to national security when we have a trade surplus with the country? cei.org/blog/tariff-le…
All of these are focuses of our work at @ceidotorg. Nice to see this validation from @grok
I asked Grok 4 Heavy to identify the Top 10 Federal regulations that should be deleted. Took 3 minutes and 17 seconds. I asked it to maximize for security, freedom, access to wealth, and better health outcomes. Here's the prompt: 'Analyze all the federal regulations in the US…
One woman. 23 letters. A president changed. After President Garfield’s assassination, Chester Arthur deeply tied to political corruption rose to power. But Julia Sand, a private citizen, believed he could do better. Her letters inspired him to pursue reform and leave a lasting…
Rebates to MA plans have quadrupled in the past seven years overall and more than doubled on a per-enrollee basis!
