Health and Education
Do You Care More than Paul Krugman Cares?
Written by John C. Goodman
At a conference at the Vatican I attended some years ago, Nobel laureate Gary Becker gave the opening speech. I found what he said quite remarkable:
The greatest beneficiaries of capitalism are those at the bottom of the income ladder. That’s why I favor capitalism. Were that not the case, I would ...
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The NEA Shows Its Politics
Written by Phyllis Schlafly
Political conversation on the media is full of chatter about how to cut spending and debt, but it reminds us of the comment attributed to Mark Twain: Everybody talks about the weather but nobody does anything about it. There’s a lot of talk about how to cut back on entitlements, but why doesn’t ...
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After Supreme Court Decision, Additional Legal Challenges Face Obamacare
Written by Kendall Antekeier
The Supreme Court may have ruled the individual mandate of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act constitutional, but legal challenges to the federal health care law have only just begun. Read more: After Supreme Court Decision, Additional Legal Challenges Face Obamacare
The case taken by the Supreme Court, NFIB v. Sebelius, contained a broad challenge to the law’s ...
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Medicare Wars
Written by John C. Goodman
How much difference is there between the Ryan budget and the Obama budget with respect to Medicare? By now most of the health care media has caught on: there is no important difference in Medicare spending — even when the estimates of the president’s budget are made by his own Office of Management ...
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Medicare May Be Obama’s ‘Waterloo’
Written by Matthew Vadum
In the Battle of Waterloo a resolute leader defeated a dangerous, imperious tyrant. The metaphor lives on today in American politics.
During congressional hostilities over Obamacare Sen. Jim DeMint (R-SC) famously urged Republicans to push hard “to stop” President Obama’s signature legislation ...
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Economics for Health Policy Wonks
Written by John C. Goodman
This blog is one of the few health policy blogs that approaches its subject from an economic point of view. We believe that almost all the problems in health policy arise because of perverse economic incentives and that to solve those problems we have to get the incentives right.
In a way that’s too ...
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Child Abuse: Sandusky, the Catholic Church, and the Education Establishment
Written by Bruce Deitrick Price
Everyone sees the parallel between the Jerry Sandusky case and the Catholic Church’s problems with pedophilia over the last several decades. Namely, there are unspeakable crimes well hidden by endless hypocrisy. Read more: Child Abuse: Sandusky, the Catholic Church, and the Education Establishment
A blogger writes: “This Sandusky story reminds of pedophilia among many priests of the ...
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Obama Sabotages Welfare Reform
Written by Phyllis Schlafly
President Obama on July 12 ended welfare reform, the crowning achievement of the Republican Congress of 1996. That reform succeeded in reducing the welfare rolls by almost half, and was so popular with the American people that Bill Clinton felt compelled to sign it.
The magic bullet that achieved ...
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Markets without Real Prices: How the Left Proposes to Control Health Care Costs
Written by John C. Goodman
Doctors are the only professionals in our society who are not free to repackage and reprice their services. If demand changes, if technology changes, if new information becomes available, every other professional is free to offer a different bundle of services to the market and charge a different ... Read more: Markets without Real Prices: How the Left Proposes to Control Health Care Costs
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