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Financial Advisor Magazine
April 26, 2018
Specifically, Americans bought 27 million life insurance policies in 1965—either individually or through an employer. By 2016, after the population had grown more than 50 percent, the number of life insurance policies sold remained at just 27 million, according to Peter Orszag, vice chairman of investmentÃâà...
The Edge Markets MY
April 13, 2018
(April 13): Cyberattacks are an increasingly common threat to business, with risk officers listing cybersecurity as their greatest concern and more than 2,200 confirmed data breaches in 2017, according to a new report from Verizon. The headlines about hacking often focus on potential harm to consumersÃâà...
ThinkAdvisor
April 9, 2018
Marketplace disruption is reshaping health care in the U.S., with headline-grabbing mergers and the formation of new companies. These moves are breaking down traditional silos in health care. And further change can be expected, as calls grow louder for better health care value for the dollar. Four trendsÃâà...
Financial Advisor Magazine
February 28, 2018
Life insurance is losing its appeal in the U.S. In 1965, Americans purchased 27 million policies, individually or through employers. In 2016, a population that was more than 50 percent larger still bought only 27 million policies. The share of Americans with life insurance has fallen to less than 60 percent,Ãâà...
American Spectator
February 9, 2018
Despite what we keep reading in the “news” media about the failure of the GOP to repeal Obamacare, congressional Republicans and President Trump are steadily dismembering the justly reviled healthcare law, limb by pernicious limb. The latest appendage to be lopped off was among its most dangerousÃâà...
Christian Science Monitor
February 2, 2018
In a 2013 article for The Atlantic, former government officials Peter Orszag and John Bridgeland wrote that they were flabbergasted when they calculated that less than $1 of every $100 of government spending was “backed by even the most basic evidence that the money is being spent wisely.” The idea ofÃâà...
Valley News
February 2, 2018
Life expectancy in the U.S. declined slightly in 2016, as it did in 2015, and — at least as important — the overall trends continue to mask increasing disparities across socioeconomic groups. Carol Graham of the Brookings Institution helps explain why. Her new book is the empirical version of Hillbilly Elegy.
The Bakersfield Californian
February 2, 2018
A 30-second ad that airs during this weekend's Super Bowl, viewed by an estimated 100 million Americans, will cost more than $5 million. Does that amount to overpriced entertainment, or do these ads generate big sales? In many cases, it seems the ads more than pay for themselves. Many marketingÃâà...
Crain's Cleveland Business
January 30, 2018
Peter Orszag: The vice chairman of investment banking at Lazard Ltd., who's also the co-head of its health-care unit, Orszag ran Obama's Office of Management and Budget. Before that, he led the Congressional Budget Office, where he studied health-care spending. (Orszag is a Bloomberg View columnist.).
Greensboro News & Record
January 18, 2018
Life expectancy in the U.S. declined slightly in 2016, as it did in 2015, and — at least as important — the overall trends continue to mask increasing disparities across socioeconomic groups. Carol Graham of the Brookings Institution helps explain why. Her important new book is the empirical version ofÃâà...
CNBC
July 20, 2017
Medicaid remains more politically 'durable' than it was 20 years ago: Peter Orszag. 7:08 AM ET Thu, 20 July 2017. Peter Orszag, Lazard Health Care co-head, weighs in on the outlook of health-care reform as legislation remains mired in the senate and the White House remains "stuck" with a program they did not want.
CNBC
June 29, 2017
Former OMB director Peter Orszag: Huge opportunity to improve value in health care. 10:49 AM ET Thu, 29 June 2017. CNBC's Jon Fortt reports the highlights of his conversation on health care at the Aspen Ideas Festival with Peter Orszag, Lazard Investment Banking vice chair and former OMB director. Watch CNBC LiveÃâà...
Washington Examiner
May 11, 2017
Mick Mulvaney and Peter Orszag sparred Thursday about the American Health Care Act, the Congressional Budget Office and prescription drug prices. ... Mick Mulvaney, President Trump's budget chief, and Peter Orszag, who held the role for a time under former President Barack Obama, sparred ThursdayÃâà...
Fortune
November 16, 2016
A major player in the Obama transition and early administration is giving President-elect Trump's effort a failing grade. Peter Orzsag, who was President Obama's first Director of the Office of Management and Budget, spoke at the Atlantic's Next Four Years forum, where he criticized what he saw as aÃâà...
Health Affairs (blog)
December 31, 1999
Then, in July of 2009, the Director of the Office of Management and Budget Peter Orszag wrote to Congress supporting Rockefeller's idea and advancing a related idea to create a process modelled very roughly on Defense Base Closure and Realignment Commission (BRAC). Created by Congress in 1980Ãâà...
