by Dan Mitchell | Feb 22, 2025 | Blogs, Free Market, Health Care
Which nation has the best health system? Is it a country with overtly government-run health care, like the United Kingdom? Is it Singapore, with its one-of-a-kind system of mandatory private savings? Is it the United States, notwithstanding being...
by Dan Mitchell | Dec 16, 2024 | Blogs, Health Care
There are a couple of CF&P videos (here and here) explaining how government intervention has messed up America’s healthcare system. And I gave a speech a few years ago that echoes those findings. Now here’s a video making similar points from Professor John...
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...