by Dan Mitchell | Dec 5, 2011 | Blogs, Europe, Health Care
Even though Paul Krugman has told us that horror stories about government-run healthcare in Britain “are false,” we keep getting reports about substandard care and needless deaths (see here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, and here). Well, let’s add another...
by Dan Mitchell | Jan 29, 2011 | Big Government, Blogs, Economics
Johnny Munkhammar is a member of the Swedish Parliament and a committed supporter of economic liberalization. He has a column in the Wall Street Journal Europe that does a great job of explaining how Sweden became rich when it was a small-government, pro-market...
by Dan Mitchell | Dec 30, 2010 | Big Government, Blogs, Health Care
Courtesy of Powerline Blog, we have a story about how Sweden’s bureaucratic health system made a mistake and…well, I’m not sure how to delicately phrase this…so let’s just give you the headline of the story: “Man’s penis amputated following misdiagnosis.” Here are...
by Dan Mitchell | Sep 12, 2010 | Big Government, Blogs, Economics, Government Spending, Taxation
I touched a raw nerve with my post about Fidel Castro admitting that the Cuban model is a failure. Matthew Yglesias and Brad DeLong both attacked me. DeLong’s post was nothing more than a link to the Yglesias post with a snarky comment about “why can’t we have better...
by Dan Mitchell | Sep 10, 2010 | Big Government, Blogs
After being in 1st place in 2007 and 2008, America dropped behind Switzerland in the World Economic Forum’s Global Competitiveness Report in 2009. The 2010 ranking was just released, and the United States has tumbled two more spots to 4th place, behind Switzerland,...
