by Dan Mitchell | May 2, 2022 | Blogs, Education
It is very common for politicians to cause a problem with government intervention and then use the problem as an excuse for even bigger government. I call this the lather-rinse-repeat cycle of government failure. And the current controversy over...
by Dan Mitchell | Feb 23, 2022 | Blogs, Health Care
The health care system in the United States is expensive and inefficient, and both of those problems are caused by government. More specifically, politicians have enacted laws (everything from the tax code’s exclusion of fringe...
by Dan Mitchell | Oct 23, 2021 | Blogs, Health Care
The healthcare sector is a tragic example of Mitchell’s Law in action, with politicians expanding the role of government in response to problems (rising prices and inefficiency) caused by previous expansions of government. The...
by Dan Mitchell | Jul 6, 2021 | Blogs, Health Care
Programs such as Medicare and Medicaid, along with the tax code’s healthcare exclusion, have created a system where consumers directly pay for only about 10 percent of the care they receive. We think it’s normal and appropriate for either the...
by Dan Mitchell | Jun 12, 2021 | Blogs, Education
Sometimes Bill Maher, the host of Real Time on HBO, says smart things and sometimes he says not-so-smart things. His recent monologue on the “college scam” was an example of the former. It’s almost as if he was channeling Professor Daniel...
