by Dan Mitchell | Aug 3, 2010 | Blogs, Health Care
Somebody sent me this story from the Drudge Report and can’t resist the temptation to share. What really astounds me is not that a Swedish man sewed up his own leg after waiting for a long time in a hospital. Heck, I wouldn’t be surprised if things like that happened...
by Dan Mitchell | Aug 3, 2010 | Blogs, Health Care
While the cartoon is amusing, I’m sure I don’t need to remind this audience that this isn’t really a joke. The IRS now has immense additional powers to micro-manage our lives.
by Dan Mitchell | Aug 1, 2010 | Big Government, Blogs, Health Care, Taxation
Like the swallows returning to Capistrano, the Congressional Budget Office follows a predictable pattern of endorsing policies that result in bigger government. During the debate about the so-called stimulus, for instance, CBO said more spending and higher deficits...
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 21, 2010 | Blogs, Health Care
While it will be nice to say “I told you so” when Obamacare leads to bad results in America, I would much prefer to avoid having stories like this appear in the American press. But in the United Kingdom, where government controls more than 90 percent of the healthcare...
