by Dan Mitchell | Apr 11, 2013 | Blogs, Free Market, Health Care
I’m going to make an assertion that seems utterly absurd. The enactment of Obamacare may have been good news. Before sending a team of medical attendants to cart me off to a sanitarium, allow me to elaborate. I’m not saying Obamacare is good policy. After all, I’ve...
by Dan Mitchell | Nov 17, 2012 | Blogs, Economics, Free Market, Health Care
When I travel, particularly overseas, I run into a lot of people who are totally confused about the American healthcare system. For all intents and purposes, they think the United States relies on the free market and that government (at least in the pre-Obamacare era)...
by Dan Mitchell | Jul 10, 2012 | Blogs, Economics, Health Care
I’ve often complained that government-created third-party payer is the main problem with America’s healthcare system, and I was making that point well before Obamacare was imposed upon the country. Simply stated, people won’t be smart consumers and providers won’t...
by Dan Mitchell | Jul 2, 2012 | Big Government, Blogs, Health Care
One of my very first blog posts was about the link between big government and big corruption. For the rest of my life, I can now cite the Obamacare travesty as an example. Here’s some of what Tim Carney wrote for the Washington Examiner. Chief Justice John Roberts’...
by Dan Mitchell | Jun 28, 2012 | Big Government, Blogs, Constitution, Health Care
’m not a lawyer, or an expert on the Constitution, though I sometimes play one on TV. But I can read, and I’ll agree with my friends on the left that the federal government has a broad power to tax. I wish the 16th Amendment had never been ratified, but its language...
