Hunt Lawrence and Daniel J. Flynn
How would consumers react to the state mandating that Americans shop at only the supermarket nearest to them? When the corner market corners the market, it can offer inferior products, inflate prices, and treat customers as pests instead of patrons….
U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos visited a public school and a private school in Florida on Tuesday. The representatives of teachers at one type of school took it as a declaration of war of sorts upon them that DeVos…
Senator Lamar Alexander opens hearings next month on healthcare, specifically, on how to stabilize the teetering individual market. Rather than a car see-sawing on the edge of a cliff or unfortunates sliding down a death spiral, Alexander’s analogy of choice…
Obamacare stipulations imposed on insurers stand as the primary reason premiums skyrocket within individual markets, according to a report commissioned by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). HHS tasked the consulting firm McKinsey and Company with finding an…
The Congressional Budget Office postulates that cutting spending by almost $100 million over the next decade would increase the deficit by about $200 million over the next decade. George W. Bush called that kind of arithmetic “fuzzy math.” The CBO…
Singapore spends less on health care than any other First World nation. Its inhabitants also rank as one of the healthiest peoples on the planet. Go figure. With polls showing just 12 percent of Americans supporting one of Senate Majority…
Ancient Egyptians, employing an arduous system of hieroglyphics to represent numbers in their ignorance of zero, displayed a man holding his hands over his head for 1,000,000 in seeming astonishment that numbers ran so high. Americans presented with our national…
One in every five dollars spent in the United States goes toward health-care expenses. Singaporeans spend less than one in 20. They live longer lives and report more satisfaction with their health care system. What do they do right that the…
