How Does Missouri Health Care Compare?
A recent news article compared cost and quality of health care across all the states of our country. We are...
PAYGO Would Only Provide Appearance of Fiscal Responsibility
Sen. Claire McCaskill is cosponsoring a bill, “PAYGO,” that would limit congressional spending to the amount of yearly revenue brought...
Giving Insurers More Room to Operate Would Increase Beneficial Competition
This article first appeared in the St. Louis Beacon. In this limited space, it is impossible to deal with...
No “Free-Market Clouds” for Blunt
I have a few comments to add about the Springfield News-Leader op-ed piece that David Stokes wrote about earlier today....
How Not to Be Taken Seriously When You Write an Op-Ed
Combest today has a link to a truly bad op-ed on health care in the Springfield News-Leader. (This is not...
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...
News for People on Unemployment
A note sent into andrewsullivan.com criticizing people on unemployment set off a number of angry responses. This relates closely to...
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...
Crucial Tax Cuts, a la Newt
Yesterday morning, I (along with a number of other Show-Me Institute staffers) attended a talk by Newt Gingrich, hosted by...
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...
Kidney Swapping and Selling
The Atlantic recently published an interesting piece about possible solutions for the kidney shortage, by former Reason editor Virginia Postrel....
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...
Stuck Inside of Springfield With the D.C. Property Tax Blues Again
The above song title (switching out “Springfield” and “D.C. Property Tax” for “Mobile” and “Memphis,” of course) was the answer...
The State’s Blind Pension Fund
The Springfield News-Leader and the AP have a story about a recent lawsuit by a group of blind citizens who...
Earmark Reform Hot Off the Presses
I have praised Sen. Claire McCaskill several times here for her refusal to use earmarks for pork barrel projects. Today, Dave...
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...
Bellefontaine Habilitation Center Is a Difficult and Emotional Issue
The St. Louis Post-Dispatch has a very thoughtful editorial this morning (link via Combest) about the Bellefontaine Habilitation Center in...
Berkeley Bob on Health Care
There is an op-ed in this morning’s Wall Street Journal by Robert Reich — President Clinton’s former Secretary of Labor...
Please Pay Our Tuition
My birth cohort, unfortunately also known as the "hand-it-to-me-on-a-silver-platter" generation, is getting involved in politics: The goal is not to...
