by Dan Mitchell | May 25, 2026 | Blogs, Government Spending, Health Care
As a fiscal policy wonk, my usual concern about Medicaid (the government health problem for low-income people) is that it is a huge – and rapidly increasing – fiscal burden. As captured by this chart. But sometimes I get agitated not by...
by Dan Mitchell | May 19, 2026 | Blogs, Health Care, States
I unveiled my 13th Theorem of Government about 10 years ago to explain that the supposed popularity of government goodies is a mirage. Once people find out that they would have to surrender more of their income, they suddenly morph into libertarians....
by Dan Mitchell | Nov 29, 2025 | Blogs, Economics, Health Care, Welfare and Entitlements
Way back in 2009, I cited a very good article in The American Spectator in hopes of getting people to understand that the United States does not have a capitalist health care system (and I’ve...
by Dan Mitchell | Oct 13, 2025 | Blogs, Health Care
Back in 2017, I unveiled the 2nd Theorem of government, which observed that it is much easier to stop a new program than to repeal an existing program. The example I used was Obamacare. Republicans had spent years arguing that the law was bad fiscal...
by Dan Mitchell | Jun 4, 2025 | Blogs, Economics, Health Care, Taxation
I wrote back in 2016 that the health care exclusion was the worst loophole in America’s monstrosity of a tax code. Today’s column will explain why that is still true and we’ll begin with this short explainer video from the folks at Kite &...
