by Dan Mitchell | Nov 16, 2013 | Blogs, Health Care
I’ve periodically used “Schadenfreude” to describe my feelings about certain issues. Maybe this makes me a bad person, but I’ve openly admitted to a perverse sense of happiness at the misfortune of others when, for instance, France’s class-warfare tax policy backfired...
by Dan Mitchell | Nov 15, 2013 | Blogs, Health Care
When I wrote a few days ago about the “Continuing Obamacare Disaster,” I didn’t realize I was understating the problems with the President’s boondoggle scheme. Now that the law’s been passed and implemented, the American people are finally finding out what’s in it...
by Dan Mitchell | Oct 20, 2013 | Blogs, Health Care
It seems there’s a cottage industry of people in America devoted to making parody videos about one of the world’s most evil statists. And some of them make very strong points about public policy. Here’s Hitler learning about Europe being downgraded. And here’s the...
by Dan Mitchell | Oct 18, 2013 | Big Government, Blogs, Economics, Health Care, Welfare and Entitlements
Obamacare was put together by people who don’t understand economics. This is probably the understatement of the year since I could be referring to many features of the bad law. The higher tax burden on saving and investment, making an anti-growth tax system even...
by Dan Mitchell | Oct 13, 2013 | Big Government, Blogs, Health Care
Back in 2009, before Obamacare, the United States had a healthcare system that was plagued by excessive government intervention, which led to a third-party-payer crisis and massive inefficiencies. Perversely, the President thought the way to solve these problems was...
