by CF&P | Jun 24, 2019 | News, Press Releases
For Immediate Release Monday, June 24, 2019 202-285-0244 www.freedomandprosperity.org Coalition Warns That Price Controls Won’t Solve Surprise Medical Bills (Washington, D.C., Monday, June 24, 2019) A coalition of 16 organizations, led by the Center for Freedom...
by Dan Mitchell | Jun 8, 2019 | Blogs, Economics, Health Care
In addition to speaking on tax competition at the European Resource Bank in Moldova, I also appeared on a panel about healthcare. I used the opportunity to explain how government-created “third-party payer” has crippled market forces in the United States and produced...
by Dan Mitchell | Apr 5, 2019 | Blogs, Health Care
The so-called Green New Deal is only tangentially related to climate issues. It’s best to think of it as the left’s wish list, and it includes a paid leave entitlement, government jobs, infrastructure boondoggles, and an expansion of the already bankrupt Social...
by Dan Mitchell | Jan 26, 2019 | Big Government, Blogs, Welfare and Entitlements
When I think about social welfare spending, I mostly worry about recipients getting trapped in dependency. But I also feel sorry for taxpayers, who are bearing ever-higher costs to finance redistribution programs. Today’s column won’t focus on those issues. Instead,...
by Dan Mitchell | Jan 20, 2019 | Blogs, Health Care
There’s a long and sordid history of people in Western nations acting as dupes and apologists for communism. This is especially the case with the wretchedly impoverished totalitarian outpost 90 miles south of Florida. President Obama lauded aspects of Cuba’s...