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Why is There a Birth Dearth?
Medicare Advantage is Saving Taxpayers Money
Obamacare Impasse in Congress
One reason why the two parties can’t reach some sort of compromise is that neither party has been willing to tackle the three biggest problems that afflict the market the Affordable Care Act created. On the buyer side, we have been trying to force people to buy insurance they would never buy with their own money. On the seller side, we have been trying to force insurers to enroll people they do not want to enroll. And on both sides of the market, we have created perverse incentives that cause costs to be higher and quality lower than would otherwise have been the case. More
Ed Crane, RIP
In the battle for liberty, we lost a warrior last week. But Ed Crane left us a legacy that will endure for a long, long time.
What Both Parties are Missing on Health Reform
As Congress revisits health reform, much of the debate overlooks the structural issues driving high premiums and limited choice. This virtual policy discussion brings together leading health policy experts to examine market-based reforms that could meaningfully lower costs and improve access—without expanding bureaucracy. View the virtual Health Policy Event hosted by the Goodman Institute and the Market Institute on Youtube.
Goodman on Health Policy
Why both parties missed an opportunity to reform Medicaid. Why they missed an opportunity to reform the Obamacare exchanges. Why partisanship is the biggest obstacle to sensible health reform.
Watch Dr. Goodman’s talk to the Public Affairs Luncheon Club in Dallas.
What We Should Be Eating
To our knowledge, the Goodman Institute is the only public policy think tank that has called for the complete inversion of the Food Pyramid, and we first did it under the Biden administration. In his latest post, John Goodman reviews the food wars – going back more than 160 years – and concludes that on this issue RFK Jr. appears to have the better argument.
Trump’s Health Reform
Pete Sessions and John Goodman give details on how Trump’s approach to health reform might work. People would be able to buy insurance that meets their needs. If a medical need arises that is not covered by their chosen plan but is covered by Obamacare plans, people would be able to switch to a silver plan in the exchange. Roth Health Savings Accounts could be used for all primary care and other out-of-pocket costs. Money not spent could be withdrawn for other purposes with no taxes or penalties. More.
How “Woke” Thinking Leads to Antisemitism
Where you find the most woke thinking in America you also find the most vocal and visible display of antisemitism – especially on college campuses…. What makes woke woke is the tendency to pick out a single characteristic (such as skin color) and make that the defining characteristic of everyone’s identity. Implicitly, the defining characteristic is more important to determining identity than all other characteristics combined. More.
Resolving the Health Policy Impasse in Congress, Part III
Whenever there is head-to-head competition to meet the same needs, markets routinely outperform government. For that reason, in Part I and Part II I argued that we should rely on the private marketplace to meet all the health care and health insurance needs it can meet. The role of government should be restricted to meeting only important needs that the market leaves unmet.
Here is the final suggestion:
Rule 3: Eliminate public policies that give people perverse incentives to raise costs and reduce quality.