by Dan Mitchell | Apr 21, 2011 | Big Government, Blogs, Government Spending, Health Care, Welfare and Entitlements
Republicans are understandably nervous about polling data showing considerable opposition to the Ryan plan’s Medicare proposal – particularly since they just voted for a budget resolution in the House of Representatives that includes such a reform. Their unease is...
by Dan Mitchell | Mar 24, 2011 | Big Government, Blogs, Government Spending, Health Care
This won’t surprise anyone with a pulse, but Obama, Reid, Pelosi, et al, were disingenuous about the costs of Obamacare. The Congressional Budget Office has released revised numbers and government-run healthcare will cost 8.6 percent more than what was projected in...
by Dan Mitchell | Mar 5, 2011 | Big Government, Blogs, Flat Tax, Taxation
One of my many frustrations of working in Washington is dealing with perpetual-motion-machine assertions. The classic example is Keynesian economics, which is based on the notion that you magically create additional economic activity by having the government spend...
by Dan Mitchell | Feb 15, 2011 | Blogs, Health Care
I’ve commented before about the sub-par government-run healthcare system in the United Kingdom, including patients dying of malnutrition, patients suffering needless pain and discomfort, and patients dying from poor care (additional examples at this link). I’ve even...
by Dan Mitchell | Jan 31, 2011 | Blogs, Constitution, Health Care
I refuse to allow myself to get too excited about the chances of Obamacare ultimately being declared unconstitutional, but I’m definitely semi-psyched that this horrid law has been declared void by another federal judge. Here’s what the Washington Examiner has to say....
