by Brian Garst | Apr 25, 2014 | Blogs
A recent article in the Wall Street Journal (reproduced here) explained how a little known and innocuous sounding agency called the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation may be the most troubling part of Obamacare. The Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation...
by Dan Mitchell | Apr 12, 2014 | Blogs, Health Care
The statists are claiming Obamacare is now a success. Needless to say, I think this is a laughable assertion. Indeed, I shared a very clever graphic from Ted Cruz to help explain why it’s hardly a big achievement to destabilize the insurance market and then coerce...
by Dan Mitchell | Apr 10, 2014 | Big Government, Blogs, Health Care, Welfare and Entitlements
The new leftist website, Vox, has an article by Sarah Kliff on Vermont’s experiment with a single-payer healthcare system. But I don’t really have much to say about what’s happening in the Green Mountain State, other than to declare that I much prefer healthcare...
by Dan Mitchell | Apr 6, 2014 | Blogs, Health Care
I’ve observed, reported, mocked, written, and explained that Obamacare is a cluster-you-know-what. So I’m rather bemused and frustrated by the latest pro-Obamacare spin that the law is a “success” because there are now 7 million people who have picked a plan....
by Dan Mitchell | Mar 28, 2014 | Big Government, Blogs, Health Care
I spoke yesterday to the Memphis Economics Club about America’s looming fiscal crisis, and I did my usual song-and-dance routine about potential Greek-style chaos in the absence of genuine entitlement reform. But I confess I was stumped when, after the speech, someone...
