Learning the Right Lesson from the Massive Medicaid Fraud Scandal in Tim Walz’s Minnesota

by Dan Mitchell | Dec 30, 2025 | Blogs, Government Spending, Health Care, Welfare and Entitlements

I wrote earlier this month about pervasive corruption and fraud in Minnesota’s Medicaid program. Now that the issue has become big national news (I first started writing about Medicaid scams more than 12 years ago), let’s take a more detailed look...

America Does Not Have a Free Market Health Care System, Part II

by Dan Mitchell | Nov 29, 2025 | Blogs, Economics, Health Care, Welfare and Entitlements

Way back in 2009, I cited a very good article in The American Spectator in hopes of getting people to understand that the United States does not have a capitalist health care system (and I’ve...

Obamacare, the Second Theorem of Government, Short-Run Political Consequences, and Long-Run Fiscal Consequences

by Dan Mitchell | Oct 13, 2025 | Blogs, Health Care

Back in 2017, I unveiled the 2nd Theorem of government, which observed that it is much easier to stop a new program than to repeal an existing program. The example I used was Obamacare. Republicans had spent years arguing that the law was bad fiscal...

The Healthcare Exclusion Is (Still) the Tax Code’s Most Harmful Loophole

by Dan Mitchell | Jun 4, 2025 | Blogs, Economics, Health Care, Taxation

I wrote back in 2016 that the health care exclusion was the worst loophole in America’s monstrosity of a tax code. Today’s column will explain why that is still true and we’ll begin with this short explainer video from the folks at Kite &...

What Country Has the Best System of Health Care?

by Dan Mitchell | Feb 22, 2025 | Blogs, Free Market, Health Care

Which nation has the best health system? Is it a country with overtly government-run health care, like the United Kingdom? Is it Singapore, with its one-of-a-kind system of mandatory private savings? Is it the United States, notwithstanding being...