by Dan Mitchell | Aug 10, 2010 | Blogs, Free Market, Health Care
John Goodman of the NCPA has a great article about how the current healthcare system is heavily distorted by government policies that result in people making decision with other people’s money (or at least what they perceive as other people’s money). The excerpt below...
by Dan Mitchell | Jul 28, 2010 | Blogs, Free Market, Health Care
Free markets are characterized by voluntary exchange between buyers and sellers. Mapping that relationship is absurdly simply, as this image indicates. Indeed, the only reason I even bothered to include that image was for purposes of comparison. Here is a new...
by Dan Mitchell | Jul 20, 2010 | Blogs, Free Market, Health Care
A major problem with America’s healthcare system, both before and after Obamacare, is the fact that consumers very rarely spend their own money when obtaining healthcare. Known as third-party payer, this problem exists in part because government directly finances...
by Brian Garst | Jul 20, 2010 | Big Government, Blogs, Free Market
Iain Murray writes at the Washington Examiner that advocacy groups Change.org and the Alliance for Climate Protection are arguing – in an email entitled, “Don’t Let BP Win!” – that “Stalling climate and energy legislation would be a big win for oil...
by Brian Garst | Jul 13, 2010 | Big Government, Blogs, Free Market
Florida Senator Bill Nelson is seizing on the BP oil spill as an excuse to pass federal “price gouging” legislation. It’s certainly nothing new to see anti-market politicians stirring up populist rage with these so-called “price gouging”...
