by Dan Mitchell | Apr 9, 2015 | Blogs, Economics, Health Care
I’ve often complained that government-created third-party payer is the main problem with America’s healthcare system, and I was making that point well before Obamacare was imposed upon the country. The issue is very straightforward. In a genuine free market,...
by Dan Mitchell | Jan 13, 2015 | Blogs, Health Care
Way back in 2010, immediately after Obamacare was rammed down our throats, I put together four guiding principles for a counter-offensive. One of my goals was to help people understand that the problem was far greater than Obamacare. Indeed, the so-called Affordable...
by Dan Mitchell | Nov 14, 2014 | Big Government, Blogs, Government Spending, Health Care
I’ve been fretting for a long time that poorly designed entitlement programs are going to turn America into a decrepit welfare state. Medicare obviously is a big part of the problem, but the fraud-riddled Medicaid program may be even worse. The program is a...
by Dan Mitchell | Sep 18, 2014 | Blogs, Economics, Health Care
People sometimes think I’m strange for being so focused on the economic harm that results from third-party payer. But bear with me and we’ll see why it’s a very important issue. If you’re not already familiar with the term, third-party payer exists when someone other...
by Dan Mitchell | Sep 14, 2014 | Blogs, Economics, Health Care
America’s health care system is a mess, and we can assign almost all the blame on government. Simply stated, we don’t have functioning and efficient markets because Medicaid, Medicare, tax-code distortions, and other forms of regulation and intervention have created a...
