Health and Education
ObamaCare’s Fiscal Cliff
Written by John C. Goodman
Did you notice that in the standoff over the fiscal cliff, all the discussion was about the Bush tax cuts? Which ones would be made permanent? And for whom? There was no discussion about the ObamaCare tax increases.
I think that was a huge tactical mistake on the part of the Republicans.
Over ...
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Food Police Group Bashes Restaurants, CBS Eats it Up
Written by Right Side News
Network website runs CSPI report including accusation and calls for regulation.
CBSNews.com promoted a restaurant attack by the pro-regulatory food police group the Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) Jan. 16, without noting the agenda of the group or providing other points of view.
The ... Read more: Food Police Group Bashes Restaurants, CBS Eats it Up
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The Uneasy Case against Free Market Health Care
Written by John C. Goodman
If you are new to health policy, here’s a warning. You won’t spend very much time in the field before you hear the claim that Stanford University economist Kenneth Arrow has shown that free markets can’t work in health care. Here is Paul Krugman making the claim and here is Arnold Klingtaking me to ...
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Public Choice
Written by John C. Goodman
James Buchanandied the other day and in the eyes of many he was the father of Public Choice economics. Comments on a number of blogs reveal two things about bloggers on the left: (1) they don’t understand what contribution Buchanan made and (2) they don’t understand why Public Choice is important. ...
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Another Study Confirms: Head Start Doesn’t Work
Written by Right Side News
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) just released its latest batch of Head Start data, revealing, once again, that its students are receiving far less than a “head start.”
The study, which was finally released the weekend before Christmas after more than a year’s delay, examines ...
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Is Private Health Insurance More Costly Than Public Health Insurance? Five Principles
Written by John C. Goodman
Uwe Reinhardt had a post the other day at The New York Times economics blog comparing Medicare with Medicare Advantage (MA) plans. He basically sifts through the evidence on which is less costly: Medicare (a public plan) or the private MA plans. But while his column is definitely ... Read more: Is Private Health Insurance More Costly Than Public Health Insurance? Five Principles
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Reading is Easy (Illiteracy is hard)
Written by Bruce Deitrick Price
This country, for the last 80 years, has been living through what future historians might call the Great American Reading Swindle. The experts claimed to believe in a method that didn’t work. In order to protect it, and to shield themselves from charges of educational malpractice, they generated ...
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Bruce Bartlett’s Worst Column
Written by John C. Goodman
Bruce Bartlett once worked for Jack Kemp and for Ron Paul. He served in the Reagan and Bush (41) administrations. He even burnishes these credentials over a column at The New York Times economics blog. Yet his columns these days are invariably anti-Republican and increasingly leftwing.
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Fiscal Cliff Deal Undoes Part of Obamacare
Written by Alyene Senger
Though the government’s entitlement spending is still spiraling out of control, taxpayers have finally caught a break: The recently passed “fiscal cliff” deal included the repeal of one of Obamacare’s worst provisions, the Community Living Assistance Services and Supports (CLASS) Act.
The ...
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