by Dan Mitchell | Nov 14, 2014 | Big Government, Blogs, Government Spending, Health Care
I’ve been fretting for a long time that poorly designed entitlement programs are going to turn America into a decrepit welfare state. Medicare obviously is a big part of the problem, but the fraud-riddled Medicaid program may be even worse. The program is a...
by Dan Mitchell | Oct 31, 2014 | Blogs, Health Care
It’s time to extend the tradition of sharing politics-related Halloween humor on October 31. Though this is only my fourth year, so maybe it’s not quite a tradition yet. Nonetheless, we’ve had some good material. There were two Halloween posts in 2011, including a...
by Dan Mitchell | Oct 8, 2014 | Big Government, Blogs, Health Care
In the last few months of 2013, Obamacare suffered a series of embarrassing setbacks dealing with everything from a clunky website to plan cancellations tothe White House feeling compelled to arbitrarily ignore the law. Since that time, though, people seem to have...
by Dan Mitchell | Sep 29, 2014 | Blogs, Health Care
I’m a huge fan of Switzerland, largely because its voters approved a spending cap that should be a role model for other nations. It’s called the “debt brake” and it has helped reduce the burden of government spending in Switzerland at a time when most nations in...
by Dan Mitchell | Sep 14, 2014 | Blogs, Economics, Health Care
America’s health care system is a mess, and we can assign almost all the blame on government. Simply stated, we don’t have functioning and efficient markets because Medicaid, Medicare, tax-code distortions, and other forms of regulation and intervention have created a...
