Why is American Health Care So Expensive?
In the May 5, 2013, New York Times columnist Ross Douthat “What Health Insurance Doesn’t Do”, discusses a recent Oregon Medicaid experiment which shows that the Medicaid program improves health...
View ArticleFree Market Healthcare in America: How Do We Get There?
Almost everyone agrees that healthcare in the U.S. is way too expensive but how do we change to a better system? Douglas Holtz-Eakin and Avik Roy have laid out a roadmap to do this: “The future of...
View ArticleShould the Employer Mandate Be Repealed?
In last Sunday’s New York Times the columnist Ross Douthat makes an excellent case in “A Hidden Consensus on Health Care”, that Obamacare’s employer mandate, recently postponed for one year until...
View ArticleCan We Solve Our Fiscal Problems Without Raising Taxes?
Scott Lilly, a Senior Fellow at the Center for American Progress, has an Op Ed column in yesterday’s Fiscal Times, “The Choice Congress Won’t Face Up To”. Mr. Lilly admits that we have at least a...
View ArticlePrivate Health Care Reform is Getting Started!
Yesterday’s Wall Street Journal has a very interesting article, “More Employers Overhaul Health Benefits”, which describes a movement just getting started whereby employers give their employees a...
View ArticleOur Dire Fiscal Situation II A Promising Solution
As I discussed in my last post, the Congressional Budget Office has shown very clearly that the U.S. is on an unsustainable fiscal path which must be reversed in order to avoid calamity. We are...
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