by Dan Mitchell | Jun 26, 2015 | Blogs, Health Care
When I criticize government-run healthcare, I normally focus on programs and interventions that distort and damage the American health sector. So I’ve written a lot on the failures of Medicaid, Medicare, and Obamacare, as well as the counterproductive effects of the...
by Dan Mitchell | Feb 17, 2015 | Big Government, Health Care
In the grand scheme of things, the most important development in health policy is the pending Supreme Court case revolving around whether subsidies can be provided to people obtaining health insurance from the federal exchange, even though the law explicitly says...
by Dan Mitchell | Jan 9, 2015 | Blogs, Economics, Health Care, Taxation
Today I’m going to say something nice about Obamacare. Not because I like the overall law, but because honesty is the best policy. Regular readers know that our healthcare system is screwed up by bad government policy. More specifically, spending programs such as...
by Dan Mitchell | Jan 1, 2015 | Big Government, Blogs, Europe, Health Care, Welfare and Entitlements
Let’s look at three very important things that may happen this year and what they might mean. 1. Will the Republican Senate support genuine entitlement reform? One of the best things to happen in recent years is that House Republicans embraced genuine entitlement...
by Dan Mitchell | Sep 6, 2014 | Big Government, Blogs, Bureaucracy, Europe, Health Care
It’s time to add to our collection of horror stories from the U.K.’s government-run healthcare system (previous examples can be found here,here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here,here, here, here, here, here, and here). What makes today’s story different,...