by Dan Mitchell | Mar 31, 2010 | Blogs, Free Market, Health Care
I actually think this it is unfair to highlight Fidel Castro’s endorsement of Obamacare, but I’m in a grumpy mood because I’ve started a diet, so I’ll simply twist the knife a bit by noting that we probably could improve American healthcare by...
by Dan Mitchell | Mar 25, 2010 | Blogs, Free Market, Health Care
While the politicians in Washington are poised to undermine the healthcare system with additional layers of taxes, spending, and regulation, Steven Chapman proposes to use markets to improve a part of the system that is suffering from a punitive form of price...
by Dan Mitchell | Mar 25, 2010 | Big Government, Blogs, Free Market
My Cato colleague Jose Pinera makes a powerful argument for “privatizing” Social Security, which is something that has happened in about 30 nations. My Ph.D. dissertation was on Australia’s private system, so I’ve always had a soft spot for...
by Andrew F. Quinlan | Mar 23, 2010 | Blogs, Free Market, Health Care
Dan Mitchell doesn’t get to talk until after the 3-minute mark, but he then explains why Obamacare will undermine the healthcare system. His basic point is that government intervention is the reason why the current system has problems, and that those problems...
by Dan Mitchell | Mar 21, 2010 | Blogs, Competition, Free Market, Privacy
Do my eyes deceive me? Has you-know-what frozen over? Something strange clearly has happened in the universe, because the Washington Post’s editorial page has published a very sensible piece about the Postal Service, noting the system is fundamentally unsound...
