by Dan Mitchell | Mar 31, 2010 | Big Government, Blogs, Health Care
I don’t seem to be as depressed as everyone else about Obamacare, in part because our system is already so distorted and controlled by government that (this is my rough guess, to be sure) all we did was move from a system that is 68 percent run by government to...
by Geoffrey MacLeay | Mar 30, 2010 | Big Government, Health Care, Privacy
In a great article written in response to the passage of the health care bill last week, Thomas Sowell argued that perhaps the biggest problem with a government controlled health care system is the inherent threat to privacy. The same argument can be made regarding...
by Dan Mitchell | Mar 29, 2010 | Big Government, Blogs, Health Care
Since we’re already depressed by the enactment of Obamacare, we may as well wallow in misery by looking at some long-term budget numbers. The chart below, which is based on the Congressional Budget Office’s long-run estimates, shows that federal government...
by Dan Mitchell | Mar 27, 2010 | Big Government, Blogs, Health Care, Taxation
Very funny column, but the underlying message is quite depressing: Last Thursday, the California Occupational Safety and Health Standards Board voted to set up a committee to examine whether condoms should be required on all pornographic film shoots. California has...
by Dan Mitchell | Mar 25, 2010 | Blogs, Free Market, Health Care
While the politicians in Washington are poised to undermine the healthcare system with additional layers of taxes, spending, and regulation, Steven Chapman proposes to use markets to improve a part of the system that is suffering from a punitive form of price...
