Beware Medicaid Expansion, Even If It Is Billed as Reform
As first appearing in the Columbia Missourian: “Beware the Greeks bearing gifts” is one of the better-known sayings in...
Passed: Direct Care Bill Moves On to the Governor
On Tuesday, the Missouri Senate passed HB 769, which protects medical retainer agreements, or “direct care,” from undue regulatory interference from the...
Obamacare Expanders’ Emergency Room Claims: Still False
Supporters of the Affordable Care Act’s Medicaid expansion have claimed for many years that implementing Obamacare would reduce emergency room visits....
Health Care Bills On the Move from the House to the Senate
We’re approaching the end of the session, and it’s worth highlighting a few health care-related bills that are winding through the...
Taxing Smokers Does Not Show Support of Education
As first appearing in the Columbia Daily Tribune: These days there are a lot of calls to make people pay...
Audit: Medicaid Program Rife With Problems
At this point, it goes without saying that Missouri’s Medicaid program has issues. From technical snafus to indisputable quality and...
In Support of An Outside Audit of Missouri’s Medicaid Program
Last month we wrote about a state audit of the St. Joseph School District that turned up tens of millions of...
Florida Story Shows Risk of Conflating Medicaid Waivers With “Block Grants”
Earlier this week I was asked by the Kansas City Star for my thoughts on a Medicaid expansion proposal being marketed...
Proposed Senate Bill Would End Obamacare Medicaid Expansion Nationwide
Last month, a trio of U.S. senators released their version of an Obamacare replacement bill, which they called the Patient Choice, Affordability, Responsibility, and...
Tennessee, Wyoming Reject Obamacare’s Medicaid Expansion (Again)
Medicaid is back in the news as pushes to implement Obamacare’s expansion in Tennessee and Wyoming came to a head...
Thoughts on Gov. Nixon’s State of the State Address
The president’s State of the Union address is always filled with lots of pomp and formality. It’s the closest thing we...
What Do Home Care Union Executives Really Want: A Wage Increase for Their Workers or a Union Contract?
On Christmas week, while many Missourians were exchanging presents or grabbing Chinese food, members of the Missouri Home Care Union...
Obamacare’s Medicaid Expansion as “Job Creator”? Not So Fast
One of the Left’s favorite talking points for why states should expand Medicaid is that doing so will mean more...
Gruber on Arkansas Private Option: “Mathematically Impossible” to Be Budget Neutral
November was a bad month for Obamacare. Over just a few weeks, voters not only handed a series of punishing...
Show-Me Minutes
Listen to these all new audio clips from the Show-Me Institute about free-market ideas: Medicaid: Medicaid expansion sounds like free...
Indebting Missouri’s Children and Expanding Government? That’s Just Wimpy
Although the Popeye the Sailor cartoons were made long before I was born, I was a connoisseur of the VHS...
Missouri’s Medicaid Program Striking Out Intended Beneficiaries
In baseball, getting a hit three out of 10 at-bats could make you an All-Star, and maybe even a Hall of Famer...
Increasing the Health Care Supply to Meet Health Care Demand
Robert Graboyes is a senior research fellow for the Mercatus Center. Later this month Dr. Graboyes will release a report...
Vetoes, Vetoes, And More Vetoes
There has been a lot of consternation in the Missouri Legislature about Gov. Jay Nixon’s vetoes and withholds (withholds differ from...
Thank Obamacare: Buchanan County, Mo., Tops List For Insurance Rate Hikes On Men
Last year, Forbes published a story about how much insurance rates were expected to rise across the country because of Obamacare....
