by Dan Mitchell | Sep 6, 2011 | Blogs, Health Care
I’ve written several times about the sometimes-deadly shortcomings of government-run healthcare in the United Kingdom (see here, here, here, here, here, here, here, and here), so I like to think I’m relatively immune to being surprised. But this story from the...
by Dan Mitchell | Jun 12, 2011 | Big Government, Blogs, Economics, Government Spending, Health Care, Welfare and Entitlements
This new video from the Center for Freedom and Prosperity explains why Medicaid should be shifted to the states. As I note in the title of this post, it’s good federalism policy and good fiscal policy. But the video also explains that Medicaid reform is good health...
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 | May 17, 2011 | Big Government, Blogs, Government Spending, Health Care, Welfare and Entitlements
This new video from the Center for Freedom and Prosperity discusses a proposal to solve Medicare’s bankrupt finances by replacing an unsustainable entitlement with a “premium-support” system for private insurance, also known as vouchers. This topic is very hot right...
by CF&P | May 17, 2011 | News, Press Releases
Center for Freedom and Prosperity Foundation For Immediate Release Tuesday, May 17, 2011 202-285-0244 www.freedomandprosperity.org New CF&P Video Explains that Vouchers, not Bureaucratic Rationing, Are Best Way to Fix Bankrupt Medicare System (Washington, D.C.,...
