As a result, the kinds of people buying insurance there have very expensive medical bills -- insurers are losing money, as they try to cover those bills, jacking up the premiums, people move to other policies so it’s turning into the death spiral that everybody worried about.

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Europeans call it socialism, Americans call it welfare, and Barac... by Douglas Holtz-Eakin

Europeans call it socialism, Americans call it welfare, and Barack Obama calls it change.

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I think we all know the budgetary environment we live in. We all know the troubling future for federal deficits. They should pay for everything. This shouldn't be special on this bill or another one. The Congress has to get serious about controlling spending.

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I always think that it's important to step back and look at the facts, figure out what is big, what is small, and always target the solution and the policy issue correctly. Don't try to solve the wrong problem with unemployment insurance.

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I think we do need better training programs, we do need a way to get people from careers that are dead-end into new careers.

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Presidents have to be very organized to govern successfully, and... by Douglas Holtz-Eakin

Presidents have to be very organized to govern successfully, and solo artists rarely succeed.

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The Federal Reserve, in my opinion, always pays way too much attention to the stock market, they shouldn't pay zero. But they pay way more than zero, and The President is obsessed with it, and The President yells at the Federal Reserve, and this feedback loop is a bad one, from the point of view of the fundamentals of policy.

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President Donald Trump ignores the business community at Presiden... by Douglas Holtz-Eakin

President Donald Trump ignores the business community at President Donald Trump own peril.

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I think we're seeing the public option come back out of desperation, we’ve seen UnitedHealthcare groups, the Aetnas of the world withdraw from exchanges.

Douglas Holtz-Eakin

'Isn’t Mr. Trump bad on trade?' 'Yes, but we’re going to fix it.... by Douglas Holtz-Eakin

'Isn’t Mr. Trump bad on trade?' 'Yes, but we’re going to fix it. Don’t worry.'.

Douglas Holtz-Eakin

The trade stuff is anti-growth and harmful to the U.S. outlook, he's an utterly unpredictable political element at this point.

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There are a lot of people who are really freaked out, douglas Hol... by Douglas Holtz-Eakin

There are a lot of people who are really freaked out, douglas Holtz-Eakin seems to be winging it.

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A control board independent enough would have to be basically imposed on Puerto Rico and infringe on its sovereignty and I think that's a problematic thing for the federal government to do.

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I don’t know what this is about. by Douglas Holtz-Eakin

I don’t know what this is about.

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I don’t think you can get the individual side of the tax code don... by Douglas Holtz-Eakin

I don’t think you can get the individual side of the tax code done next year.

Douglas Holtz-Eakin

I’m an economist, and I disagree, we know there’s lots of spending in the bill, and that it’s front-loaded.

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It is hard to have this discussion now that we've had a terrible economic tragedy, a terrible public health tragedy, but when you do immigration reform it should be what do you want to the rules of the road to be for the next 20 years. You don't want to do this every year.

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