by Dan Mitchell | Apr 30, 2011 | Big Government, Blogs, Economics, Government Spending, Health Care
I just read something that unleashed my inner teenager, because I want to respond with a combination of OMG, LMAO, and WTF. Donald Berwick, the person appointed by Obama to be in charge of Medicare, has a column in the Wall Street Journal that makes a very good...
by Dan Mitchell | Dec 8, 2010 | Blogs, Economics, Free Market, Health Care
The title of this post may be a slight exaggeration. I actually recommend you read the entire two-page paper by Devon Herrick of the National Center for Policy Analysis. But this chart from that study is an excellent visual display of what’s wrong with the health care...
by Dan Mitchell | Sep 4, 2010 | Blogs, Europe, Health Care
Here’s some horrifying news from the United Kingdom, where the government-run healthcare system allowed 239 patients to die of malnutrition in 2007. Another 8,000-plus entered the system for malnutrition and actually deteriorated. In 2007, 239 patients died of...
by Dan Mitchell | Aug 10, 2010 | Blogs, Free Market, Health Care
John Goodman of the NCPA has a great article about how the current healthcare system is heavily distorted by government policies that result in people making decision with other people’s money (or at least what they perceive as other people’s money). The excerpt below...
by Dan Mitchell | Jul 28, 2010 | Blogs, Free Market, Health Care
Free markets are characterized by voluntary exchange between buyers and sellers. Mapping that relationship is absurdly simply, as this image indicates. Indeed, the only reason I even bothered to include that image was for purposes of comparison. Here is a new...
