Medicaid, the ACA and Trump
On July 30, 1965, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the law that created the Medicaid and Medicare programs. The President was eloquent in his description of the objectives of the law:
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On July 30, 1965, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the law that created the Medicaid and Medicare programs. The President was eloquent in his description of the objectives of the law:
We are writing in response to the request for “stakeholder input” issued by the Bipartisan Congressional Task Force on Economic Growth in Puerto Rico (the “Task Force”), which was established pursuant to Section 409 of the Puerto Rico Oversight, Management, and Economic Stability Act (“PROMESA”).1
We are writing in response to the request for “stakeholder input” issued by the Bipartisan Congressional Task Force on Economic Growth in Puerto Rico (the “Task Force”), which was established pursuant to Section 409 of the Puerto Rico Oversight, Management, and Economic Stability Act (“PROMESA”).1
El pasado 15 de junio de 2016 CNE retomó públicamente el tema con la presentación de “Devising a Growth Strategy for Puerto Rico”, un informe elaborado junto al Initiative for Policy Dialogue de la Universidad de Columbia que comienza a esbozar los lineamientos de una nueva política industrial para la isla. ¿En qué consiste la propuesta de CNE? Escucha CNE Unplugged, donde reproducimos el audio de la exposición que hicieron los tres autores del informe ante la prensa.
Puerto Rico experimenta una de las peores recesiones que se han registrado en el mundo durante la pasada década, segunda solo a la de Grecia que acumuló una caída de 28% en su Producto Interno Bruto (PIB) entre 2007-2015. La contracción de la economía de Puerto Rico comenzó en 2006 (antes que la crisis financiera de 2007 en EEUU) y ha ocasionado una reducción cumulativa de 14% del Producto Nacional Bruto (PNB) de la isla. Es por esto que se podría decir que la economía de Puerto Rico ha experimentado ya una “década perdida”.
Haga clic aquí para acceder al informe “Devising a Growth Strategy for Puerto Rico” y el resumen ejecutivo en español. La “CNE Growth Commission” trabajará una nueva estrategia de crecimiento económico 15 de junio de 2016 – El Centro para una Nueva Economía (CNE) develó hoy en San Juan un informe realizado junto al Initiative Read More
The Puerto Rican economy has already experienced a “lost decade”—to use the term that the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, ECLAC, coined in the 1980s for Latin America and that has been widely used at the international level since then—and, if no action is adopted soon, it will continue on a negative path for the foreseeable future.
Click the button to download the full report “Devising a Growth Strategy for Puerto Rico” The “CNE Growth Commission” will work on a new growth strategy for the island June 15, 2016 – The Center for a New Economy (CNE) unveiled today in San Juan a joint report prepared with the Initiative for Policy Dialogue (IPD) Read More