Debt Wrong
“From our first days as a nation, we have put our faith in free markets and free enterprise as the engine of America’s wealth and prosperity,” President Barack Obama declared in a speech at George...
View ArticleWelcome Budget Talk
Finally. A serious budget plan. House Budget Chairman Paul Ryan's proposal has the head-in-the-sand crowd horrified . A Washington Post columnist called it "radical ... irresponsible ......
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The Truth About Health Care Reform and the Economy
Editor’s Note: Reason columnist and Mercatus Center economist Veronique de Rugy appears weekly on Bloomberg TV to separate economic fact from economic myth.Myth 1:Health care reform will reduce the...
View ArticleA Conservative Defense of ObamaCare
Opponents of President Barack Obama's health care program lost the legislative battle, but they have high hopes of stopping it yet. That could be accomplished by defeating Obama in 2012 and electing a...
View ArticleWhy RyanCare Will Fail
President Obama last week criticized the Medicare vouchers that are part of RyanCare, the health care reform plan in the budget proposal by Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., because they would allegedly balance...
View ArticleEat Your Veggies
It has become known as the Broccoli Hypothetical. In oral arguments over whether ObamaCare violates the Constitution by forcing people to buy insurance, federal Judge Roger Vinson asked, "If they...
View ArticleWither Medicare?
In 1995, when he was speaker of the House, Newt Gingrich told a gathering of Blue Cross/Blue Shield executives that he and his fellow Republicans planned to present "a free-market plan" that would...
View ArticleWill Comparative Effectiveness Research Kill More People Than It Helps?
Better health care at lower cost. That's what comparative effectiveness research promises, but can it deliver? A new study argues that federal comparative effectiveness research won't generate cheaper,...
View ArticleObamaCares Disastrous New Long-Term Care Entitlement
When ObamaCare passed, the Obama administration’s top officials repeatedly assured the public that it was not just fiscally sound but fiscally responsible: a path toward long-term deficit reduction and...
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The Facts about the Governments Medicare Cost Projections
Editor’s Note: Reason columnist and Mercatus Center economist Veronique de Rugy appears weekly on Bloomberg TV to separate economic fact from economic myth.Myth:The government’s cost projections are...
View ArticleMore Central Planning: The Failed Panacea for Health Care Reform
Callahan and Nuland perfer to see "a centrally directed and budgeted system, oversight in the use of new and old technologies, and price controls.” They are like fiscal homeopaths in reverse. Instead...
View ArticleThe Trouble with ObamaCare
Democrats will often get irritable when some clingy philistine refers to ObamaCare as "socialized medicine." It's simply not a precise phrase for the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. In any...
View ArticleMedicare's Least Bad Fix
Let me say at the outset that I think both ObamaCare and RyanCare are a dog’s breakfast, a hodgepodge of unappetizing ideas that won’t cure the nation’s core health care problem—out-of-control...
View ArticleSpend More, Save More
Medicare is on the path to bankruptcy. By 2024, the Congressional Budget Office estimates that the seniors health program will be insolvent. It’s not just the program’s fiscal health that’s at stake...
View ArticleThe Week of Lying Dangerously
There was a time when Barack Obama seemed more honest than Bill Clinton. While Slick Willie notoriously claimed he smoked pot but "didn't inhale," Obama candidly admitted, "When I was a kid, I inhaled...
View ArticleSmoked Out
Arizona has a major public health problem: Too few people are smoking.That’s not the only fiscal problem the state faces. But it’s one of them. Like many states, Arizona’s public finances are in...
View ArticleIPAB: The Roach After the Nuclear Blast.
A small army of health policy wonks helped Democrats pack ObamaCare full of big ideas that they hoped would transform American health care, making it less expensive and more effective. Perhaps the...
View ArticleNo Healthy Deals
Earlier this year, Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) left the so-called Gang of Six, an independent team of senators who took it upon themselves to negotiate a proposed debt deal apart from the administration...
View ArticleWe're from the Government and We're Here to Help
Last week in Mother Jones, Kevin Drum argued that the recent contretemps over the national debt had only a single cause. Defense, discretionary, and interest spending are mostly on a downward slope as...
View ArticleLooking for Limits
Opponents of the federal law requiring Americans to buy government-approved medical coverage face a daunting challenge. Because the U.S. Supreme Court has treated the power to "regulate commerce…among...
View ArticleStrict Scrutiny
In his recent opinion upholding the constitutionality of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act’s mandate that all Americans purchase health insurance, conservative 6th Circuit Judge Jeffrey...
View ArticleSoak the Rich or Soak the Super Rich?
For Democrats, millionaires are the new Gypsies—a minority whom it is perfectly acceptable to persecute because its wealth is ill-gotten, not the product of hard work.There is no better evidence of...
View ArticleLiberal Programs Deserve Blame for Income Inequality
Liberals are treating a new Congressional Budget Office study showing that income inequality increased in America over the last three decades as the smoking gun they’d always been looking for—the...
View ArticleAmicus Brief Filed With Supreme Court: Department of Health and Human...
This amicus brief was filed filed on behalf of Reason Foundation, the Center for Constitutional Jurisprudence, the Judicial Education Project, The Individual Rights Foundation, The Heritage Foundation,...
View ArticleReason-Rupe Poll: Americans Don't Think Health Care or Broccoli Mandates Are...
As the Supreme Court hears challenges to the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act this week, a new Reason-Rupe poll of 1,200 adults finds 62 percent of Americans believe it is unconstitutional...
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