Last month marked nine years since the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (popularly known as Obamacare) became law. Obamacare’s proponents promised that the law would reduce costs, expand access, and allow us to keep our doctors if we liked our doctors. The...
Conservatives who argue to “limit” the welfare state are routinely painted as cold-hearted by welfare state supporters. With good reason. “I support government programs to assist those truly in need, but we must keep welfare programs from growing too big,” is the...
33 Minutes Suitable for All Ages Dr Keith Smith started the Surgery Center of Oklahoma over 20 years ago with the intention of providing surgical options outside of the monopolistic insurance cartel. He has done just that. One example, the SSofOK lists their prices on...
Last Friday, an Afghanistan War veteran suffering from PTSD took hostages at a Northern California veterans home, ultimately killing three female employees and himself. And so, the senseless and endless US intervention in Afghanistan has claimed four more lives, right...
The Senate confirms Alex Azar as Health and Human Services Secretary. [Link] Sam Brownback confirmed as the at-large ambassador of religious freedom. [Link] Idaho looks to allow companies to offer health insurance plans that do not meet Obamacare regulations. [Link]...
Last week was strange. On Friday, President Trump issued a new executive order, and many Democrats and media outlets promptly denounced it. For instance, Yahoo! Finance ran with the subtle title, "Trump's Obamacare cut is timed for maximum destruction." Meanwhile, 20...
The U.S. federal budget is now in the neighborhood of $4 trillion. Just ten years ago it wasn’t even $3 trillion. It was “only” $2 trillion in 2002, and didn’t reach the trillion dollar mark until 1987. The greatest component of the federal budget is spending on the...
My latest article for the American Institute for Economic Research is "Market-Based Medical Care for All."
