by CF&P | Jul 10, 2012 | News, Press Releases
Center for Freedom and Prosperity Foundation For Immediate Release Tuesday, July 10, 2012 202-285-0244 www.freedomandprosperity.org New CF&P “Economics 101” Video Demonstrates Need for New Direction in Health Care (Washington, D.C., Tuesday, July 10, 2012) The...
by Dan Mitchell | Jun 9, 2012 | Blogs, Health Care, Taxation
Back in 2009, I wrote about various schemes to impose taxes on unhealthy food. At the time, I was primarily concerned about the risks of giving politicians a new source of revenue that would be used to increase the burden of government spending. The folks at Reason TV...
by Dan Mitchell | Feb 21, 2012 | Blogs, Education, Health Care
Taxes and spending are two of the most obvious burdens imposed by government, and I’m glad that many people are fighting against a political class that seems to have a limitless appetite for a bigger public sector. But politicians also can do great damage to an...
by Dan Mitchell | Dec 31, 2011 | Blogs, Europe, Health Care
Paul Krugman has told us that awful stories about government-run healthcare in Britain “are false.” I guess this means that the media must be dominated by conservative liars, since we keep getting reports about substandard care and needless deaths...
by Dan Mitchell | Jun 12, 2011 | Big Government, Blogs, Economics, Government Spending, Health Care, Welfare and Entitlements
This new video from the Center for Freedom and Prosperity explains why Medicaid should be shifted to the states. As I note in the title of this post, it’s good federalism policy and good fiscal policy. But the video also explains that Medicaid reform is good health...
