by Dan Mitchell | Jun 9, 2011 | Big Government, Blogs, Health Care
This is rather remarkable. According to a story in the UK-based Daily Mail, a man was left to die, on a hospital floor, over a period of 10 hours. I’m not sure whether this is the worst example of government-run healthcare (or non-healthcare, to be more precise). I’ve...
by Dan Mitchell | Jun 7, 2011 | Big Government, Economics, Health Care, Welfare and Entitlements
This is the most depressing – but revealing – thing I have read in a long time: “the health-care sector has twice as many clerical workers as nurses and nine times as many as doctors.” That passage is from a very good column by Robert Samuelson, in which he covers a...
by Dan Mitchell | Jun 6, 2011 | Big Government, Blogs, Economics, Government Spending, Laffer Curve
My good friend Veronique de Rugy of the Mercatus Center at George Mason University did a very illuminating interview with Bloomberg about the serial inaccuracy of government fiscal forecasts. Veronique uses health care as an example, giving particular attention to the...
by Dan Mitchell | Jun 3, 2011 | Blogs, Health Care
The line between political truth and literary fiction is getting very blurry. One of the main features of Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged was the choice of productive people to withdraw their talents from the economy to deprive the statists of a source of loot. Who would...
by Dan Mitchell | May 26, 2011 | Big Government, Blogs, Health Care
Michael Barone of the American Enterprise Institute goes to town on the selective, discriminatory, and politically motivated dispensation of Obamacare waivers. I particularly like how he zings the left by asking why, if Obamacare is so wonderful, so many millions of...
