What the Government Shutdown Was Really About with Elias Tsapelas
Susan Pendergrass is joined by Elias Tsapelas, director of state budget and fiscal policy at the Show-Me Institute, to explain...
Medicaid Waiver Request A Great Idea
Although much of the legislative air has been consumed by Right to Work in the last few weeks, two other...
Listen Up, Missouri Lawmakers: Here Are Seven Resolutions for 2017
Oh, Missouri lawmakers, it is me, the Ghost of a Christmas Yet-to-Come, who whispers in your ear this wintry night....
Expansion Is Wrong Move For Medicaid
As first appearing in the Columbia Tribune: In his 2006 book The Audacity of Hope, then-U.S. Sen. Barack Obama was correct...
What Would A Free-Market Medicaid Reform Look Like?
With all the discussion about Medicaid reform, transformation, and (an unwise) expansion, it’s worthwhile to remind ourselves what “success” for...
Health Care Law Violates Sound Public Policy In 10 Ways
It was the kind of spectacle that policy wonks savor – three days of complex and abstruse arguments before the...
Reminder: Health Care ‘Reform’ Law Raises Costs On Young People
Next week, the United States Supreme Court will hear oral arguments on the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA,)...
Missouri’s Attorney General Should Join Health Care Reform Lawsuit
When Missourians passed Proposition C last August with more than 71 percent of the vote, they signaled opposition to the...
Hello, My Name Is Christine and I Have a Health Savings Account
Today, the Springfield News-Leader ran my recent editorial in which I argue that Attorney General Chris Koster should join the...
Neither Health Nor Wealth
Health economist John Goodman, who has been referred to as the father of the health savings account (HSA), published an...
Perilous Journey Ahead for HSAs
Show-Me Institute scholars and staffers have written many blog entries, op-eds, and studies dealing with health savings accounts (HSAs). Accompanied...
What Does the Patient Protection Act Do to the Average Missourian Today?
As we are all aware, President Barack Obama signed the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act on March 23 (P.L.111-148)....
The Autism Bill: Negative Outcomes From Good Intentions
There is an ironic tension between two health care bills currently pending in the Missouri Senate. One seeks to create...
Poverty and Health Care in Missouri
Last year, the American Journal of Medicine included a disturbing story about bankruptcy in America. In that study of five...
Baumol and Health Care Costs
The New York Times has a nice analysis of health care cost control using the insights of economist William Baumol,...
John Mackey on Consumer-Driven Health Care
The Wall Street Journal published an interview with John Mackey, CEO of Whole Foods, on Saturday. Among other interesting topics,...
Back to Basics: Health Savings Accounts
In the debate about health care reform, a lot of jargon and acronyms have been thrown around as potential solutions...
Could Missouri Be Helped with a Health Care Co-Op?
During the current health care debate, there has been a great deal of discussion about an option for a national,...
Reining in Medicaid
An article in the Springfield News-Leader reports that the number of people within Missouri’s Medicaid program has risen 5 percent...
Laffer on Health Care
Economist Art Laffer has recently released a study and published an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal evaluating the needs,...
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