by Dan Mitchell | Sep 26, 2010 | Big Government, Blogs, Health Care
In the real world, rational people know that companies will stop selling products if they are forced to lose money. In the political world, though, common sense doesn’t matter. Or at least it ranks far below other considerations, such as power, polling, fundraising,...
by Brian Garst | Sep 23, 2010 | Big Government, Blogs, Health Care, Regulations
Consider this a prelude to Obamacare: Tens of thousands of Texas children will be directly affected by the 11th-hour decision of a number of major health insurance companies to stop selling child-only policies rather than comply with the new federal law that requires...
by Dan Mitchell | Sep 4, 2010 | Blogs, Europe, Health Care
Here’s some horrifying news from the United Kingdom, where the government-run healthcare system allowed 239 patients to die of malnutrition in 2007. Another 8,000-plus entered the system for malnutrition and actually deteriorated. In 2007, 239 patients died of...
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 | Aug 4, 2010 | Big Government, Blogs, Health Care
I believe in freedom and my opinions are never swayed by polling data and election results, but I’m not oblivious to the importance of public opinion. So I’m delighted that the voters of Missouri overwhelmingly approved a measure against a federal mandate to purchase...
