by Dan Mitchell | Dec 15, 2022 | Big Government, Blogs, Bureaucracy, Health Care
One thing that became very apparent during the pandemic is that government schools are mostly run for the benefit of bureaucrats rather than students. Not that any of us should have been surprised. The same is true for other...
by Dan Mitchell | Sep 11, 2022 | Blogs, Free Market
A core libertarian principle is that people have the right to do whatever they want with their own bodies. And that includes things that may be harmful, such as taking drugs, smoking, and over-eating. It also includes personal choices...
by Dan Mitchell | Aug 13, 2022 | Blogs, Economics, Health Care
The central message of “Mitchell’s law” is certainly not something I concocted. Economists and other policy experts have known for a couple of hundred years that politicians have a tendency to makes mistakes and then use the resulting damage as a justification...
by Dan Mitchell | May 16, 2022 | Blogs, Health Care
Most people would say high prices are the biggest problem with health care in the United States. But high prices should be viewed as the symptom of the real problem, which is “third-party payer.” And what is third-party payer? It’s the fact that consumers purchase...
by Dan Mitchell | Feb 23, 2022 | Blogs, Health Care
The health care system in the United States is expensive and inefficient, and both of those problems are caused by government. More specifically, politicians have enacted laws (everything from the tax code’s exclusion of fringe...
