by Dan Mitchell | Dec 2, 2012 | Blogs, Health Care
I’m not easily grossed out or nauseated. Heck, I’m on email lists for a half-dozen softball teams and you can only imagine the strange/filthy/nasty things that guys send to each other. But I read a story about the death panels in the United Kingdom that left me...
by Dan Mitchell | Nov 17, 2012 | Blogs, Economics, Free Market, Health Care
When I travel, particularly overseas, I run into a lot of people who are totally confused about the American healthcare system. For all intents and purposes, they think the United States relies on the free market and that government (at least in the pre-Obamacare era)...
by Dan Mitchell | Oct 28, 2012 | Big Government, Blogs, Europe, Government Spending, Health Care
I used to think I was in favor of every possible step to reduce the burden of government spending. Are agricultural subsidies wasteful and corrupt? Yes, so get rid of the Department of Agriculture. Is Medicaid spending out of control? Yes, so cap outlay growth and...
by Dan Mitchell | Oct 20, 2012 | Blogs, Europe, Health Care
I’m not a fan of the American healthcare system. It suffers from huge inefficiencies because of problems such as third-party payer, which is caused by government programs such as Medicare and Medicaid along with a system of tax code-driven over-insurance in the...
by Dan Mitchell | Oct 12, 2012 | Big Government, Blogs, Government Spending, Health Care, Welfare and Entitlements
This election season has seen lots of talk (and demagoguery) about whether investors, entrepreneurs, and small business owners should be hit with class-warfare tax policy. And there’s also been lots of debate about the best way of averting bankruptcy for Medicare,...
