Michael F. Cannon

Michael F. Cannon is the Cato Institute’s director of health policy studies and the author of Recovery: A Guide to Reforming the U.S. Health Sector. Follow him @mfcannon.

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The Myth of The Medicare “Trust Fund”

Using the phrase “Medicare’s trust fund” for any reason other than exposing its falsehood is grossly misleading. It implies there’s a pot of money available to fund Medicare, when no such pot exists.

Free Valjean

Free Valjean

Journalism does Valjean a further injustice when it focuses only on the bone and not the boot.

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Prescription Drug User Fee Act (PDUFA)

The government has been taking away people’s rights to make their own health decisions for 90 years without ever studying whether its interventions are benefiting patients.

The Myth of the Free-Market US Health Sector

The Myth of the Free-Market US Health Sector

Conti, Frank, and Cutler shatter the common myths that the United States has “largely unregulated prices” for medical care or is “one of the only developed countries where health care is left mostly to the free market.”

The Single Greatest Obstacle to Health Care Quality

The Single Greatest Obstacle to Health Care Quality

When government asserts control over your health care, it creates opportunities for low‐​quality providers to lobby for subsidies and regulations that protect them from competition from high‐​quality producers.

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