by Dan Mitchell | Oct 20, 2013 | Blogs, Health Care
It seems there’s a cottage industry of people in America devoted to making parody videos about one of the world’s most evil statists. And some of them make very strong points about public policy. Here’s Hitler learning about Europe being downgraded. And here’s the...
by Dan Mitchell | Oct 13, 2013 | Big Government, Blogs, Health Care
Back in 2009, before Obamacare, the United States had a healthcare system that was plagued by excessive government intervention, which led to a third-party-payer crisis and massive inefficiencies. Perversely, the President thought the way to solve these problems was...
by Dan Mitchell | Aug 30, 2013 | Blogs, Health Care
During the big-spending Bush years, economic and fiscal people inside the Administration often would sympathize with my complaints about bad policy, but say that there was nothing they could do since all the big decisions were being made by the political types in the...
by Dan Mitchell | Aug 26, 2013 | Big Government, Blogs, Health Care
Want to know why – as shown by this map – most of America’s richest counties are part of the metropolitan DC region? Part of the answer is that federal bureaucrats are overpaid. Another part of the answer is that the Washington area is filled with consultants and...
by Dan Mitchell | Jul 14, 2013 | Blogs, Health Care
Is Obamacare such a cluster-you-know-what that the law will self-destruct? Well, I’ve already explained why I’m optimistic about the possibility of turning Obamacare lemons into free-market lemonade. Simply stated, the law took a healthcare system that already was...