Poverty
Climate Change
Climate Economics 101 and Policy Activism
(1) The Discount Rate. Economists give wildly different estimates of the “social cost of carbon” and hence the “optimal” tax on an additional unit of emissions. These differences are not primarily due to the assumptions about climate systems or human vulnerabilities to warming. On the contrary, the main difference between, ...
Health Care
Commissioner Dan Weighs In On Health Care Reform
First, I am concerned because of the reason why this reform is supposedly needed. The reason why many people believe we need this reform is the fact that we have 45-50 million uninsured people in America. I do not believe this is a good reason because: 12-18 million of the ...
Commentary
Reformers’ Claims Just Don’t Add Up
Health Reform: Many extravagant claims have been made on behalf of the various health care “reforms” now emerging from Congress and the White House. But on closer inspection, virtually all prove to be false. Yet even as many Americans start to have second thoughts about our government’s possible takeover of ...
Commentary
Let’s Can the Public Plan
President Barack Obama wants to sign a health “reform” bill by October. Democratic congressional leaders are doing their part to satisfy the president, promoting bills that threaten to government’s role, at the expense of patients and doctors. Apparently, though, they didn’t consult the American public. It’s not that ordinary Americans ...
Commentary
Why We Must Ration Health Care
You have advanced kidney cancer. It will kill you, probably in the next year or two. A drug called Sutent slows the spread of the cancer and may give you an extra six months, but at a cost of $54,000. Is a few more months worth that much? If you ...
Commentary
North Dakota Rejects State Health Expansion
Health Care News (Heartland Institute), July 1, 2009 The North Dakota legislature has rejected a measure to expand eligibility for the State Children’s Health Insurance Program. The bill would have extended SCHIP eligibility to families making 200 percent of the federal poverty level and would have allowed more than 1,100 ...
Commentary
Myths, Lies and Stupidity About Health Care
President Barack Obama’s health care plan, we are told, will spend $1 trillion over the next 10 years. But since trillion is the new billion, Americans aren’t supposed to worry about that. Obama’s health care plan will cause employers to stop providing private health insurance for millions of employees and ...
Commentary
Health-Care Myths
Fox Business News, June 23, 2009 The Obama administration is now attempting the biggest overhaul of healthcare since Lyndon B. Johnson pushed through Medicare and Medicaid in 1965. But the health care reform debate is riddled with misleading myths taken as fact, myths that are torquing the debate beyond recognition, ...
Commentary
Healthcare, part 1
What to look for in the Obamacare informercial on ABC this week 1. Why do we need healthcare reform? Why is it absolutely necessary to offer a public healthcare option? And why should the government be responsible (using taxpayer money) for organizing it? Proponents of the democrats’ quest to provide ...
Health Care
PRI’s John R. Graham visits the Paddock
Healthcare Horserace (American Liberty Alliance), June 15, 2009 As the debate on Capitol Hill continues to focus on just how much government is too much government in the healthcare industry, we thought you might like to hear an alternative point of view. So, we enlisted John R. Graham, Director of ...
Climate Economics 101 and Policy Activism
(1) The Discount Rate. Economists give wildly different estimates of the “social cost of carbon” and hence the “optimal” tax on an additional unit of emissions. These differences are not primarily due to the assumptions about climate systems or human vulnerabilities to warming. On the contrary, the main difference between, ...
Commissioner Dan Weighs In On Health Care Reform
First, I am concerned because of the reason why this reform is supposedly needed. The reason why many people believe we need this reform is the fact that we have 45-50 million uninsured people in America. I do not believe this is a good reason because: 12-18 million of the ...
Reformers’ Claims Just Don’t Add Up
Health Reform: Many extravagant claims have been made on behalf of the various health care “reforms” now emerging from Congress and the White House. But on closer inspection, virtually all prove to be false. Yet even as many Americans start to have second thoughts about our government’s possible takeover of ...
Let’s Can the Public Plan
President Barack Obama wants to sign a health “reform” bill by October. Democratic congressional leaders are doing their part to satisfy the president, promoting bills that threaten to government’s role, at the expense of patients and doctors. Apparently, though, they didn’t consult the American public. It’s not that ordinary Americans ...
Why We Must Ration Health Care
You have advanced kidney cancer. It will kill you, probably in the next year or two. A drug called Sutent slows the spread of the cancer and may give you an extra six months, but at a cost of $54,000. Is a few more months worth that much? If you ...
North Dakota Rejects State Health Expansion
Health Care News (Heartland Institute), July 1, 2009 The North Dakota legislature has rejected a measure to expand eligibility for the State Children’s Health Insurance Program. The bill would have extended SCHIP eligibility to families making 200 percent of the federal poverty level and would have allowed more than 1,100 ...
Myths, Lies and Stupidity About Health Care
President Barack Obama’s health care plan, we are told, will spend $1 trillion over the next 10 years. But since trillion is the new billion, Americans aren’t supposed to worry about that. Obama’s health care plan will cause employers to stop providing private health insurance for millions of employees and ...
Health-Care Myths
Fox Business News, June 23, 2009 The Obama administration is now attempting the biggest overhaul of healthcare since Lyndon B. Johnson pushed through Medicare and Medicaid in 1965. But the health care reform debate is riddled with misleading myths taken as fact, myths that are torquing the debate beyond recognition, ...
Healthcare, part 1
What to look for in the Obamacare informercial on ABC this week 1. Why do we need healthcare reform? Why is it absolutely necessary to offer a public healthcare option? And why should the government be responsible (using taxpayer money) for organizing it? Proponents of the democrats’ quest to provide ...
PRI’s John R. Graham visits the Paddock
Healthcare Horserace (American Liberty Alliance), June 15, 2009 As the debate on Capitol Hill continues to focus on just how much government is too much government in the healthcare industry, we thought you might like to hear an alternative point of view. So, we enlisted John R. Graham, Director of ...
