by Dan Mitchell | Feb 8, 2021 | Big Government, Blogs, Economics, Regulations
While I freely self-identify as a libertarian, I don’t think of myself as a philosophical ideologue. Instead, I’m someone who likes digging into data to determine the impact of government policy. And because I’ve repeatedly noticed that more government...
by Dan Mitchell | Sep 23, 2020 | Blogs, Economics, Health Care
I’ve shared many videos (here, here, here, here, here, and here) explaining how government has made America’s health system expensive and inefficient. I especially recommend my 2019 speech to the European Resource Bank. Now let’s add this video to our collection. One...
by Dan Mitchell | Feb 17, 2020 | Big Government, Blogs, Health Care
The main problem with America’s health care system is government intervention (Medicare, Medicaid, the tax code’s healthcare exclusion, etc). The main symptom of all that intervention is pervasive “third-party payer,” which is the term for a system where people buy...
by Dan Mitchell | Nov 20, 2019 | Big Government, Blogs, Education
As part of National Education Week, I’ve looked at the deterioration of K-12 government schools and also explained why a market-based choice system would be a better alternative. The good news is that we have a choice system for higher education. Students can choose...
by Dan Mitchell | Jun 8, 2019 | Blogs, Economics, Health Care
In addition to speaking on tax competition at the European Resource Bank in Moldova, I also appeared on a panel about healthcare. I used the opportunity to explain how government-created “third-party payer” has crippled market forces in the United States and produced...
