Budget Policy and Politics

Social Security’s Effects on the Federal Budget Deficit: Economics and Politics (PDF)

Medicare and the Federal Budget: Misdiagnosed Problems, Inadequate Solutions (PDF)

From Ambition to Desperation on the Budget (PDF)

Playing the Wrong PART: The Program Assessment Rating Tool and the Functions of the President’s Budget (PDF)

The President’s Budget vs. Congressional Budgeting: Institutionalizing the Adversarial Presidency? (PDF)

Health Care Policy

The 2010 U.S. Health Care Reform: Approaching and Avoiding How Other Countries Finance Health Care (PDF)

Cutting Health Care Spending: What is the Cost of an Excise Tax that Keeps People from Going to the Doctor? (PDF)

Public Attitudes Toward Health Care Spending Aren’t The Problem; Prices Are (PDF)

Systemwide Cost Control — The Missing Link in Health Care Reform (PDF)

The Obama Administration’s Options for Health Care Cost Control: Hope Versus Reality (PDF)

Implementing Health Care Reform with All-Payer Regulation, Private Insurers, and a Voluntary Public Insurance Plan (PDF)

Cost Control and Health Care Reform – The Case for All-Payer Regulation (PDF)

Health Care Politics

My Health Policy Nightmare

Prices, Volume, and the Perverse Effects of the Variations Crusade (PDF)

The Politics of Belief and U.S. Health Care Reform (PDF)

Muddling Through the Muddled Middle (PDF)

Joseph White CV (PDF)