By Jeff Paul Activist Post August 12, 2017 Free Market Alternatives To Obamacare Why do car insurance companies charge more for teenage boy drivers? Because they pose a higher risk of filing an insurance claim from accidents, mud bogging, speeding tickets, etc. Insurance companies must manage a pool of risk against potential […]
By Martin Armstrong Armstrong Economics August 8, 2017 Obamacare is Officially Destroying the Economy & Has Reached 60% of total Retail Sales The retail sector has been stagnant and most people are blaming AMAZON. A closer look is really required rather than the typical superficial analysis. Today, online sales represent only 8.5% of […]
By George Pickering Mises Institute July 24, 2017 Does Britain Have the World’s Best Health System? Only If You Ignore Outcomes “The National Health Service is the closest thing the English have to a religion,” Margaret Thatcher’s Chancellor Nigel Lawson famously once observed. However, given the swivel-eyed fanaticism with which its supporters will defend […]
By Austin Schanzenbach Foundation for Economic Education July 11, 2017 The Future of Healthcare is Already Here Let’s imagine a scenario where you no longer need to use insurance for health care. No more calling on pre-approval for services or fighting over the phone with monotone customer service reps over denied claims. […]
By Ryan McMaken Mises Institute June 30, 2017 Government Medicine: Court Declares Child Should Die Rather Than Receive Privately-Funded Health Care In a government-controlled healthcare system, the state determines who can receive treatment and when. This has long been admitted. But, what is less often discussed is that once a patient finds himself within […]
By Gary Galles Mises Institute June 8, 2017 Healthcare: “Insurance” Now Just Means Redistribution Americans have been fighting over health insurance reform for ages. For example, 25 years ago, in 1992, over 200 congressional health care bills were introduced. Unfortunately, while the rhetoric has focused on insurance, such as how many would supposedly gain or […]
By Ryan McMaken Mises Institute May 12, 2017 Napolitano: The GOP Didn’t Touch the Core of Obamacare On Kennedy yesterday, Judge Andrew Napolitano explained how the GOP’s “repeal” of Obamacare does nothing to touch the four foundations of the Obamacare plan. The new plan “assumes the premise of Obamacare,” Napolitano noted, explaining that the […]
By Andrew P. Napolitano LewRockwell.com March 31, 2017 Is Health Care a Right or a Good? The political fiasco that unfolded last week as President Donald Trump and the Republican House leadership failed to pass legislation repealing the Affordable Care Act, commonly called Obamacare, is attributable as much to the failure of politics […]
By Against Crony Capitalism March 28, 2017 An antidote for Obamacare: Cash only medicine with transparent pricing and no insurance — the future of medicine? Oh we hope so. (From AEI) The price list above is from the website of Clinica Mi Pueblo, which is a chain of eight medical clinics […]
By Michael Snyder Economic Collapse Blog March 24, 2017 Member Of Congress Warns Of A 1,000 Point Stock Market Crash If Obamacare Lite Does Not Pass Are we going to see a dramatic stock market plunge if the effort to get “Obamacare Lite” through the U.S. House of Representatives ultimately fails? On […]
By Alice Salles The Anti-Media March 23, 2017 How the Government Ruined U.S. Healthcare — and What We Can Actually Do About It Government’s meddling in the healthcare business has been disastrous from the get-go. Since 1910, when Republican William Taft gave in to the American Medical Association’s lobbying efforts, most administrations have passed […]
By Hunter Lewis Against Crony Capitalism March 10, 2017 Repeal and Replace Needn’t Be Complicated The choices are pretty simple. But Paul Ryan’s bill just takes us deeper down the rabbit hole. The Republicans have a problem. Healthcare prices are so swollen by government imposed monopolies that most people cannot possibly afford to pay […]
By Scott Powell Mises Institute February 21, 2017 Our Huge Hidden Tax: Government Regulations On day one, President Trump surprised business leaders gathered at the White House, declaring US regulations “out of control” and “in need of 75% or more reduction.” A week later, he boldly signed an executive order requiring repeal of two […]
By Michel Accad Mises Institute February 16, 2017 Healthcare: Government — Not Technology — Is Driving Prices Up Should we blame technology for the growth in healthcare spending? Austin Frakt, a healthcare economist who writes for the New York Times, thinks so. Citing several studies conducted over the last several years, he claims that technology […]
By Jonathan Newman Mises Institute February 11, 2017 Healthcare Is Not Immune to the Laws of Economics One of the great things about economics is that it is devoid of all mysticism. Every person, good, service, and dollar is treated equally — nothing is special or above the rules. There’s nothing about the supply […]
