What Washington Won’t Tell You About the Next Economic Crisis – Highlights
This is the five-minute version of a speech by Brian Riedl, lead budget analyst for the Heritage Foundation. In...
Medical Licensing in Missouri
The Post-Dispatch is currently publishing a thorough series about how the Missouri state medical board disciplines doctors for medical errors...
Diminishing Returns
Apropos of my post about income taxes last Friday, two columns that ran over the weekend dramatically illustrate the downsides...
Death Panels and the Market
Within the health care debate that has taken place during the past year, “death panels” and health care rationing were...
Government: No Costs, All Benefits
Government has no costs — only benefits — according to several professors in economics at the University of Missouri–Kansas City,...
Painting a Rosy Picture
Missouri Auditor Susan Montee has found that fiscal notes relating to tax credit programs severely understate their costs. From the...
What Does the Patient Protection Act Do to the Average Missourian Today?
As we are all aware, President Barack Obama signed the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act on March 23 (P.L.111-148)....
Health Care Reform Another Step in Decline of Our Economic Freedom
The passage and signing of the president’s massive health care reform legislation are the latest chapters in the socialization of...
Medicaid Cuts: As Scary as They Look?
Gov. Jay Nixon has proposed $120 million in cuts for the state’s Medicaid program. There has been a lot of...
What Does It Cost if Your Neighbor Has No Health Care Insurance?
Americans are proud of their independence and their rights as individuals to express their unique perspectives. No one is about...
Could There Be a Long-Term Benefit From the Health Care Debate?
The recent Massachusetts election confirmed the fact that the health care debate is far from over. The people in the...
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...
Denied!
Supporters of increased government involvement in health care — such as Michael Moore, as seen in his film Sicko —...
Health Care Reform and Constitutional Limits
Among the elements of the health bill being considered by Congress is a requirement that every adult would either have...
Small Businesses Can’t Drive Job Growth if They’re Saddled With Higher Taxes
With high unemployment rates continuing to plague the nation, there has been a renewed federal focus on the “engine” of...
It’s Nice That the USPSTF Isn’t NICE … For Now
Christine Harbin recently wrote an interesting post about the new mammography guidelines issued by the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force....
Thinking Rationally About Rationing
Last month, the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force revised its guideline on mammograms, advising that women should wait until age...
Will Future Health Care Look Like Canada’s or Britain’s?
A shorter version of this article first appeared in the St. Louis Business Journal. Commentators in the current health care...
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...
What Will Future Health Care Look Like?
Today, Rik Hafer, chair of the Department of Economics and Finance at Southern Illinois University–Edwardsville and research fellow with the...
