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Rubio’s Health Care Plan: Economics vs. Politics

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It is often the case that good economics makes bad politics, and vice-versa.  That is evident in the part of Senator Marco Rubio’s health care plan that deals with the employer-based tax exclusion for health insurance. Rubio’s plan proposes a refundable tax ...
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In Memoriam: Whitney Ball

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We at the National Center for Public Policy Research were saddened to learn today of the death of Whitney Ball, the founder and CEO of DonorsTrust and an indefatigable fighter for liberty and limited government. Unlike many, we cannot claim ...
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That’s Okay. New Mexico’s ObamaCare Exchange Will Be Just Fine with Fewer Insurers

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In early June, Mother Jones writer Kevin Drum stated, “don’t pay too much attention to scare stories about gigantic increases in Obamacare premiums next year.”  One reason, he said was that a “few months from now, the real rate increases—the ...
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Danhof’s Criticism of Apple’s Tim Cook Highlighted by Rush Limbaugh and Fox Business Network

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Is Tim Cook failing as the leader of Apple? He certainly seems hypocritical about gay rights when he calls Indiana discriminatory while doing business with Iran. Justin Danhof, director of the Free Enterprise Project, told host Neil Cavuto on the ...
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A Word About the Economy: “Stagnant”

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Another month has come and gone with not a lot of good economic news for Americans. Obama and his supporters might cheer at official unemployment figures that are slowly edging toward five percent like they do for other alleged economic ...
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ObamaCare Is a Very Inefficient Way to Deliver Health Care

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In late July, the political left celebrated a new study from the Journal of the American Medical Association that purported to show that people are getting better care under ObamaCare.  Johnathan Cohn claimed that the study is “one more reason ...
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Book: Medicare Harms Patients And Impairs Doctors

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Some housekeeping chores I didn’t get to last week.  First, thanks to Richard Eisenberg, who did an interview with me about Medicare’s Victims: How the U.S. Government’s Largest Health Care Program Harms Patients and Impairs Physicians, that appeared at both ...
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Why ‘Medicare-for-All’ Is A Terrible Idea

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Yesterday I had another article at The Federalist examining Robert Reich’s push for single-payer health care, a.k.a. “Medicare-for-All.”  This was one of the more enjoyable pieces I’ve written in a while, so here is an excerpt: And what is Reich’s ...
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Medicare’s Unhappy 50th Anniversary

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Today is the 50th Anniversary of President Lyndon Johnson signing Medicare into law.  The Daily Caller published my article today explaining why that is nothing to celebrate.  Here is an excerpt: Medicare has a dark underbelly that is seldom given ...
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The Silliest Argument in Favor of Medicare-For-All

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Easily the most absurd claim advanced by the Medicare-for-All (i.e. single-payer) crowd is that Medicare is more efficient than private sector health insurance because it has lower administrative costs. There are numerous problems with that argument, not the least of ...
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