Key questions for the new year.
Daily Analysis
The Three Best and Three Worst Policy Developments of 2014
The things we applauded and face-palmed over in 2014.
Health Care Update: Everything from Medicaid’s Ever-Rising Fiscal Burden to a (Very Tepid) Defense of Jonathan Gruber
Medicare’s fiscal black hole, and why Jonathan Gruber got at least one thing right.
Four Lessons from the Mid-Term Elections
The 2016 election turned out to be 1994 and 2010 put together. What does it mean?
Halloween Political Humor
It’s time to extend the tradition of sharing politics-related Halloween humor on October 31.
Washington’s Action Plan for Ebola: Squalid Waste and Pork-Barrel Spending by the CDC and NIH, Seasoned with Corruption at HHS
Years ago, I shared a very funny poster that suggests that more government is hardly ever the right answer to any question. Yet in Washington, the standard response to any screwup by government is to make government even bigger. Sort of Mitchell’s Law on steroids. And…
A Very Bad Year for Obamacare…and a Worse Year for the Victims of Obamacare
In the last few months of 2013, Obamacare suffered a series of embarrassing setbacks dealing with everything from a clunky website to plan cancellations tothe White House feeling compelled to arbitrarily ignore the law. Since that time, though, people seem to have…
Landslide Vote against Single-Payer Healthcare Confirms that Switzerland Is an Outpost of Rationality in a Statist Continent
I’m a huge fan of Switzerland, largely because its voters approved a spending cap that should be a role model for other nations. It’s called the “debt brake” and it has helped reduce the burden of government spending in Switzerland at a time when most nations in…
Subsidies and Third-Party Payer = Inefficiency and Higher Prices
People sometimes think I’m strange for being so focused on the economic harm that results from third-party payer. But bear with me and we’ll see why it’s a very important issue. If you’re not already familiar with the term, third-party payer exists when someone other…
Birth Control, Third-Party Payer, and the Politicization of Health Care
America’s health care system is a mess, and we can assign almost all the blame on government. Simply stated, we don’t have functioning and efficient markets because Medicaid, Medicare, tax-code distortions, and other forms of regulation and intervention have created a…