CNN Video: How Government Blocks Health Care Access for the Poor

By Michael F. Cannon

Remote Area Medical‘s Stan Brock, who spoke at the Cato Institute’s 2012 State Health Policy Summit, explains: The culprit is state medical licensing laws. For more, read Cato adjunct scholar Shirley Svorny. CNN Video: How Government Blocks Health Care Access for the Poor is a post from Cato @ Liberty – Cato Institute Blog

CNN Video: How Government Blocks Health Care Access for the Poor is a post from Cato @ Liberty – Cato Institute Blog

Another Fairly Insane Cross-National Health Care Comparison

By Michael F. Cannon

Yesterday, countless newspapers published a really disappointing story by Noam Levey that the Los Angeles Times ran under this title: Global push to guarantee health coverage leaves U.S. behind; China, Mexico and other countries far less affluent are working to provide medical insurance for all citizens. It’s viewed as an economic investment. The article is little more [...]

Another Fairly Insane Cross-National Health Care Comparison is a post from Cato @ Liberty – Cato Institute Blog

Obamacare: Higher Taxes, More Uninsured, Says CBO

On March 13, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) updated its score of Obamacare, announcing that the program is $48 billion cheaper than in its previous 2011 score. The primary reason for this change is that more individuals will lose their employer-provided coverage than originally anticipated, and the government will collect $99 billion more in taxes and penalties. CBO also finds that there are more uninsured individuals. In short, this new CBO update continues the trend of Obamacare becoming increasingly expensive and decreasingly effective with each new scoring update. In this … More