by Dan Mitchell | May 24, 2015 | Blogs, Economics, Education, Health Care
What’s the most effective way of screwing up a sector of the economy? Since I’m a fiscal policy economist, I’m tempted to say that bad tax policy is the fastest way of causing damage. And France might be my top example. But other forms of government intervention also...
by Dan Mitchell | Apr 9, 2015 | 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. The issue is very straightforward. In a genuine free market,...
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 | Feb 4, 2015 | Big Government, Blogs, Government Spending, Health Care
My Cato Institute colleague Michael Tanner has produced some first-rate substantive research on issues. He produced a study showing that personal retirement accounts would have been a better deal than Social Security even for people who retired at the depth of the...
by Dan Mitchell | Jan 13, 2015 | Blogs, Health Care
Way back in 2010, immediately after Obamacare was rammed down our throats, I put together four guiding principles for a counter-offensive. One of my goals was to help people understand that the problem was far greater than Obamacare. Indeed, the so-called Affordable...
