Missouri Dental Association Promotes Its Agenda
Two op-eds, attributed to different members of the Missouri Dental Association (MDA), appeared in the Columbia Missourian and the Examiner...
Senate Passes Health Care Reform Bill on Christmas Eve
The Senate has finally passed a health care reform bill, after months of heated debate. The $871 billion plan, according...
Contrary to Popular Opinion, Health Care Does Follow Free-Market Mechanisms
On Sunday, one of my favorite economists, Greg Mankiw, used basic economic concepts to describe how the government reimbursement system...
Health Care Solutions Need to Be Feasible
The Missouri Budget Project recently wrote a special piece for the St. Louis Beacon about affordable health care, “What to...
Economics of Our Health
There’s been a lot of talk lately about health care, especially at the suddenly very popular town hall–style meetings, which...
Who Are the Missourians Without Health Care Insurance?
In the ongoing health care discussion, few have looked at who the people are without health care insurance. In Missouri,...
Reining in Medicaid
An article in the Springfield News-Leader reports that the number of people within Missouri’s Medicaid program has risen 5 percent...
Laffer on Health Care
Economist Art Laffer has recently released a study and published an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal evaluating the needs,...
Cutting Health Care Costs With a Chainsaw
The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) recently published a letter to the House majority leader regarding a proposal to establish a...
Competition in Health Care, Not More of the Same
About 11 percent of Missourians are without health insurance, according to the numbers from Families USA. To combat this and...
Great News From Arizona
I’ve discovered (via the Friedman Foundation for Educational Choice) that the Grand Canyon State has approved legislation expanding school choice....
Holding the Line on the Welfare State
The Missouri House of Representatives has shown some real political courage on the complicated issue of expanding the state’s Medicaid...
Great Photo of Illegal Activity in the Post-Dispatch
This photo in the Post-Dispatch may not rank up there with Dave Drebes’ posting of a fundraising flyer that revealed...
Why the SCHIP Might Go Down
Last Wednesday, the House of Representatives passed a bill (289-139) to expand funding for the State Children’s Health Insurance Program...
Eric Mink Writes About Risk (the Experience, Not the Board Game)
I enjoy closely reading and analyzing Eric Mink’s columns in the Post-Dispatch, but because he primarily writes about national or...
A Healthy Trend
Yahoo! Finance is reporting the largest annual federal budget deficit in history. In FY2008, the U.S. government will post a...
Jefferson City Friday Round-Up
There is a great deal going on in Jefferson City these days, which might normally be a bad thing, as...
Some Senators Should Stop the Stupid Stimulus
Ahh, alliteration, the simple pleasure of a poetic mind. This post really doesn’t have anything to do with the Senate...
A Better Solution to Missouri’s Long-Term Nursing Home Care
It’s disturbing to think of nursing home abuse. Many of us have elderly family members or friends living in assisted-living...
Columbia School District Should Abandon Frivolous Lawsuit
To date, Columbia Public Schools has spent roughly $82,000 on the “adequacy” lawsuit, despite the fact it is a no-win...
