Notice-and-comment periods for new regulations have numerous benefits, including avoiding unintended consequences and higher rates of compliance when the regulations are implemented. A new report examines the efficacy of these efforts in developing countries and calls for better data on whether these benefits still hold to digital notice-and-comment processes.
According to one recent survey, 24% of Americans say they won’t get the COVID-19 vaccine. So how do we get to herd immunity? Josh Gotbaum says businesses can (and should) require employees to get vaccinated.
COVID-19 stimulus exposed the inefficiency in the government’s ability to make direct payments, especially to the unbanked. With expanded Child Tax Credit payments due to start soon, Aaron Klein and Myrto Karaflos say it’s time to fix the problem.
Consistent with previous findings, a new analysis of Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services data by Loren Adler and Kathleen Hannick shows notably higher ratios of charges to Medicare payment rates in specialties where surprise billing is most common, primarily emergency medicine and anesthesiology.
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Tax reforms to raise revenue efficiently and equitably. As policymakers look to support the rebuilding of the economy from the COVID-19 recession, various new tax reforms are being considered. This blog post from the Hamilton Project looks back at prescient tax proposals from 2020’s policy book “Tackling the Tax Code.”
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