WASHINGTON–The National Flood Insurance Program should effectively be privatized, a think-tank analyst argues in a new study paper.

The analyst, Eli Lehrer, a senior fellow at the Competitive Enterprise Institute and an expert on the program, specifically said the NFIP “is broken and needs serious change.”

And, he said, in the long run, “it needs to go.”

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