Multimedia
July 24, 2019
Medicare Part D Reform & Drug Prices
AAF’s Deputy Director of Health Care Policy Tara O’Neill Hayes explains why Medicare Part D should be reformed as well as AAF’s proposal for how to change incentives to lower drug costs.
Multimedia
July 24, 2019
Tara O'Neill Hayes
AAF’s Deputy Director of Health Care Policy Tara O’Neill Hayes explains why Medicare Part D should be reformed as well as AAF’s proposal for how to change incentives to lower drug costs.
The American Action Forum is a 21st century center-right policy institute providing actionable research and analysis to solve America’s most pressing policy challenges.
July 2024
+0.2%
+2.9%
Measures the change in prices of all goods and services purchased for consumption by urban households.
July 2024
+0.2%
+3.2%
Consumer Price Index excluding food and energy.
July 2024
+0.2%
+2.6%
A measure of prices paid for goods and services excluding food and energy; the Federal Reserve’s preferred measure of inflation.
July 2024
+0.1%
+2.2%
Measures the change in selling prices received by domestic producers of goods and services.
Week ending August 31, 2024
227,000
-5,000
230,000
Weekly unemployment insurance claims reported by each state’s unemployment insurance program offices.
August 2024
51.5
+0.1
A level above 50 indicates expansion
August 2024
47.2
+0.4
A level above 50 indicates expansion
August 2024
67.9
+1.5
The core questions cover three broad areas of consumer sentiment: personal finances, business conditions, and buying conditions.
August 2024
+99,000
Measures change in private-sector employment using ADP payroll data covering more than half a million companies with more than 25 million employees.
July 2024
$73.6B
-0.1%
+2.1%
A new order is a communication of an intention to buy for immediate or future delivery.
July 2024
1,238,000
-6.8%
-16.0%
Privately owned housing starts; seasonally adjusted at an annual rate.