None of these eight reforms rub hard on ideological wounds. They can all be pursued without touching existing entitlement systems and legacy welfare provision. They would amount to the first major steps toward creating parallel systems of experimentation, all within the framework of the existing system. It seems like they should earn bipartisan support.
Substantial deficit reduction by unilateral executive decree was never a realistic outcome, given that Congress holds the power of the purse.
Because of Medicaid’s matching grant system, states have no incentive to cut wasteful or fraudulent Medicaid outlays and every incentive to increase both.
The statist mixed economy, not capitalism, is to blame for Americans’ poor health and poor diet.
“All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside.” – Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution
I’ve chronicled 50 changes that the Trump administration has made that have made life dramatically better in record time.
The decades-long erosion of IP rights can be traced back to Google’s acquisition of YouTube in 2006.
This “tax exclusion” for employer-sponsored health insurance is the original sin of US health policy.
Eliminating immigration, licensing and other regulatory obstacles would expand access to high-quality, affordable home care without costing taxpayers a penny.
The previous administration specifically targeted Jay Bhattacharya, calling him a “fringe epidemiologist” and sought to censor his opinions. This quiet academic who stood up for principle when it mattered has found himself picked to head the world’s most powerful scientific agency.
On the aggressive, emotional, and irrational response of the Democrats and their allies on “the left” to Trump’s DOGE campaign.
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.
Despite a population of 40 million, there are only 432 MRI machines in Canada. The US has more than 13,000. Long wait times are the symptom of a deep problem.
It is not the corporate CEOs who deserve to be blamed: statist governments are the real villains.
Kennedy says he is not anti-vaccine but merely “asking uncomfortable questions.”
Increase HSA contribution limits so nearly all workers could deposit 100 percent of what their employer pays toward health benefits tax‐free into an HSA.
One Health, as newly embraced by the CDC, amounts to a radical transformation of the basis of social order itself, under the guidance of god-like scientists who alone know how to structure the best life for all living things, even if that comes at the expense of human flourishing.
People are shocked at the murder of the United Healthcare CEO and those who support the actions of the murderer. They rightfully denounce the murderer and those who support him. However, no one has identified the fundamental reason why many people think the murder is justified.
Congratulations to you. In no particular order, here are some public policy recommendations.
Although the incoming Trump administration says it will cut taxes, reduce regulations, and slash wasteful government spending—all of which are good things—it also intends to enact an industrial policy to bolster US manufacturing, using interventionist tools such as tariffs, subsidies, Buy American rules, and similar commands—all of which are bad things and inherently anti-liberty.
Besides abandoning DEI programs, what should companies do then if they want to achieve long-term success?
Critics who applaud violence against executives like Brian Thompson misunderstand how the healthcare system operates — and seem content to wallow in those adolescent misapprehensions.
Are elections capable of delivering real results?
President George Washington was right then, and he is right now. Let’s end NATO expansion and bring the boys back home.
Argentina’s budget cuts have generated eye-popping results: lower inflation, higher wages, and the nation’s first budget surplus in 12 years.
Privatization of the Veterans Health Administration would improve health care for veterans and nonveterans alike.
“Absentee ballots remain the largest source of potential voter fraud.” –Jimmy Carter, 2005
Harris is the most anti-American Progressive that has ever gained the nomination of a major political party in American history.
The world’s leading expert on Ayn Rand’s philosophy Objectivism, founder of the Ayn Rand Institute, Leonard Peikoff, speaks with James Valliant about Donald Trump and why he is voting against anti-American Progressive Democrat Kamala Harris.
The people of Georgia, among the most wonderful in the world, are being let down by their own country’s appeasement of Russia.
A tax on unrealized capital gains constitutes an end-run on rights of private property and subverts fundamental market principles by taxing assets not yet sold or converted into income.
By decentralizing disaster relief, we can build a system that is more effective and more in line with the principles of federalism and limited government — principles that have been proven to lead to greater prosperity for all.
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