by Dan Mitchell | Jan 5, 2023 | Blogs, Health Care
Does the United States have a market-based health care system or a socialist health care system? That’s not an easy question to answer. Because of Medicare, Medicaid, and other government programs, taxpayers directly finance about 50 percent of...
by Dan Mitchell | Jan 2, 2023 | Blogs, Education
In Part I of this series, I shared a very amusing video from Bill Maher about how colleges and universities have become “luxury day-care centers.” I then added some of my analysis to show that government subsidies – such as student loans – were the underlying...
by Dan Mitchell | Aug 25, 2022 | Big Government, Blogs, Education
As a general rule, some of the worst people are attracted to the world of politics. As such, we should never be surprised when politicians push bad policy. But there are bad ideas…and there are really bad ideas. At the risk of understatement, Biden’s...
by Dan Mitchell | May 22, 2022 | Blogs, Education
For years, I’ve been explaining that students have been hurt rather than helped by government programs to allegedly make higher education more affordable. How can this be true? For the simple reason that colleges and universities dramatically boosted tuition...
by Dan Mitchell | May 16, 2022 | Blogs, Health Care
Most people would say high prices are the biggest problem with health care in the United States. But high prices should be viewed as the symptom of the real problem, which is “third-party payer.” And what is third-party payer? It’s the fact that consumers purchase...
