by Andrew F. Quinlan | Dec 17, 2014 | Opinion and Commentary
This article appeared on Inside Sources. Promised savings from the passage of Obamacare have not materialized. While its impact on insurance premiums is admittedly complex and difficult to measure precisely, many Americans are paying more thanks to the President’s...
by Dan Mitchell | Oct 31, 2014 | Blogs, Health Care
It’s time to extend the tradition of sharing politics-related Halloween humor on October 31. Though this is only my fourth year, so maybe it’s not quite a tradition yet. Nonetheless, we’ve had some good material. There were two Halloween posts in 2011, including a...
by Dan Mitchell | Oct 18, 2014 | Big Government, Blogs, Bureaucracy, Health Care
Years ago, I shared a very funny poster that suggests that more government is hardly ever the right answer to any question. Yet in Washington, the standard response to any screwup by government is to make government even bigger. Sort of Mitchell’s Law on steroids. And...
by Dan Mitchell | Oct 8, 2014 | Big Government, Blogs, Health Care
In the last few months of 2013, Obamacare suffered a series of embarrassing setbacks dealing with everything from a clunky website to plan cancellations tothe White House feeling compelled to arbitrarily ignore the law. Since that time, though, people seem to have...
by Dan Mitchell | Sep 29, 2014 | Blogs, Health Care
I’m a huge fan of Switzerland, largely because its voters approved a spending cap that should be a role model for other nations. It’s called the “debt brake” and it has helped reduce the burden of government spending in Switzerland at a time when most nations in...