by Dan Mitchell | Jun 28, 2017 | Big Government, Blogs, Government Spending, Welfare and Entitlements
Senate Republicans have produced their Obamacare repeal legislation, though as I noted at the end of this interview, it’s really more a bill about Medicaid reform than Obamacare repeal. While it’s disappointing that big parts of Obamacare are left in place, it’s...
by Dan Mitchell | Jun 4, 2017 | Blogs, Health Care
Back in 2015, I basically applauded the Congressional Budget Office for its analysis of what would happen if Obamacare was repealed. The agency’s number crunchers didn’t get it exactly right, but they actually took important steps and produced numbers showing how the...
by Dan Mitchell | Mar 29, 2017 | Big Government, Blogs
For three decades, I’ve been trying to convince politicians to adopt good policy. I give them theoretical reasons why it’s a good idea to have limited government. I share with them empirical evidence demonstrating the superiority of free markets over statism. And I’m...
by Dan Mitchell | Mar 24, 2017 | Blogs, Economics, Health Care
I’m flabbergasted when people assert that America’s costly and inefficient healthcare system is proof that free markets don’t work. In hopes of helping them understand what’s really going on, I try to explain to them that an unfettered market involves consumers and...
by Dan Mitchell | Mar 15, 2017 | Big Government, Blogs, Health Care, Taxation
As I wrote yesterday (and have pontificated about on many occasions), the main problem with America’s healthcare system is that various government interventions (Medicare, Medicaid, Obamacare, tax code’s healthcare exclusion, etc) have created a system where people –...
