Our healthcare system is more screwed up because government now is playing a bigger role.

Third-party payers raise costs.

Medicare is not working for America.

A look at how subsidies can result in costly distortions.

The current approach to health care is messed up. Most of us buy services with other people’s money and that dramatically distorts incentives.

Repeal is not enough.

Medicare’s fiscal black hole, and why Jonathan Gruber got at least one thing right.

People sometimes think I’m strange for being so focused on the economic harm that results from third-party payer. But bear with me and we’ll see why it’s a very important issue. If you’re not already familiar with the term, third-party payer exists when someone other than the consumer is paying for something. And it’s a […]

America’s health care system is a mess, and we can assign almost all the blame on government. Simply stated, we don’t have functioning and efficient markets because Medicaid, Medicare, tax-code distortions, and other forms of regulation and intervention have created a system that is crippled by a third-party payer crisis. There’s no logical reason to expect consumers to […]

The new leftist website, Vox, has an article by Sarah Kliff on Vermont’s experiment with a single-payer healthcare system. But I don’t really have much to say about what’s happening in the Green Mountain State, other than to declare that I much prefer healthcare experiments to occur at the state level. Indeed, we should reform Medicaid andMedicare and also fix the […]