Don’t Feed The Blob: An Open Letter To The Editor About Government’s Spooky Growth
To the Editor: For those of us who like a good old-fashioned scare, this time of year is a real...
Pro-Obamacare Saint Louis Hospital Cutting Back Benefits To Part-Timers … Apparently Because Of Obamacare
Earlier this year, BJC Healthcare hosted a press conference supporting the expansion of Medicaid in Missouri under the Affordable Care...
Opposing Tax Cuts, Supporting Bigger Government, And The Wisdom Of Milton Friedman
Few economists of the 20th Century had as wide and substantive an impact on the political discourse as Milton Friedman....
The Show-Me Spend-O-Meter For A New Year
New Year? It’s the end of July! Yes, it is, but for the state, it actually is a new year....
Quick Reaction To Yesterday’s Medicaid Hearing In Independence
Yesterday, the (take a breath) Missouri Interim Committee on Citizens and Legislators Working Group on Medicaid Eligibility and Reform (exhale)...
Unreal: Governor Nixon Vetoes Volunteer Health Services Act
Awful, and done the day before a holiday weekend, when fewer people would be watching. The VHSA would have let...
Gov. Nixon Unexpectedly Gives Legislators Another Reason To Override A Tax Cut Veto
Last Thursday, Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon dispatched a press release saying he believes the income tax cut, passed by a...
The Ayes Don’t Have It: Medicaid Expansion Fails In Missouri
The proposed Missouri Medicaid expansion has reached the end of the line, at least for this year. When Missouri Gov....
On The Medicaid Proposal Coursing Through The House
Last week, the Missouri House Committee on Government Oversight and Accountability voted 7-2 to pass House Bill 700, a proposal...
Reminder: A Strong Majority Of States ‘Remain Either Defiant Or Undecided’ About Expanding Medicaid
The Associated Press kind of buried the lede this weekend in a story about state legislatures supposedly wanting to “make...
Dear Affordable Care Act Supporters: You Call This ‘Saving Money’?
Proponents of the Affordable Care Act (a.k.a. Obamacare) have long claimed that the law’s provisions would “bend the cost curve”...
Chart: This Is Not ‘Medicaid Reform’
Earlier this month, the Heritage Foundation built and published a chart that ran out the direct costs of a Medicaid expansion...
No, A Medicaid Expansion Would Not Be ‘Medicaid Reform’
On Wednesday, the Missouri Hospital Association (MHA) and the Missouri Chamber of Commerce held a press conference touting a report...
The Medicaid Expansion Issue, Bullet-Pointed
I have related my concerns about a Medicaid expansion in Missouri many times. Not only does Medicaid provide low-quality care...
Prospect Of Medicaid Expansion Appears To Have Turned Missouri’s Credit Outlook Negative
Is federal spending “free money”? Of course not — as I have said many times, we are the federal government,...
Jay Nixon Makes The Wrong Call On Medicaid
Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon calls an up-or-down vote on expansion of the state’s Medicaid program “the biggest decision facing our...
State Of The State Address: Simply Irresponsible To Propose Medicaid Expansion
It was no surprise that Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon expressed his support for expanding the state’s Medicaid program during his...
Five New Year’s Resolutions for Enhancing Liberty – And Pulling Back from the ‘Fiscal Cliff’
In past years, the Show-Me Institute proposed New Year’s resolutions aimed at Missouri policymakers. This time, our New Year’s resolutions...
It Is Time to Reform Medicaid, Not Expand It
If someone who is sinking deeper and deeper into debt comes to you with an offer of “free money,” you...
On the Proposed Medicaid Expansion
As our readers know, last Thursday, Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon announced his support for an expansion of Missouri’s Medicaid program....
