by Dan Mitchell | Oct 12, 2024 | Blogs, Health Care
When I first started writing this column, it was during Obama’s first year and the big controversy was his plan for more government control over health care. I focused mostly on the adverse fiscal implications, but also warned that Obamacare would...
by Dan Mitchell | Oct 3, 2023 | Blogs, Health Care
I periodically use “Least Surprising Headline” to call attention to articles citing very predictable outcomes. Pandemic spending being a magnet for fraud.European politicians finding another excuse to expand government.Bailouts not solving...
by Dan Mitchell | Jan 17, 2023 | Blogs, Health Care
I’m routinely critical of the many ways that government intervention has created an expensive and inefficient health system in the United States. But there are countries where government causes even greater problems. So when I want to...
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...
by Dan Mitchell | Feb 4, 2022 | Blogs, Health Care, Taxation
I wrote last month about a tax-and-spend proposal for single-payer healthcare in California (sort of a state version of “Medicare for All“). I also analyzed the scheme in this discussion with Gene Tunny of Australia. What’s remarkable, as Gene mentioned in...
