By Michael F. Cannon, courtesy of the Cato Institute House Democrats are proposing a temporary but massive $34 billion increase in subsidies for ObamaCare plans. The proposal would offer its largest subsidies to high‐income earners. It would offer more subsidies on behalf of men than women. It would cover few previously uninsured individuals, and at […]
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Repealing CON Laws Saves Lives
By Sriparna Ghosh, Agnitra Roy Choudhury, and Alicia Plemmons, courtesy of the Mercatus Center Imagine you have respiratory distress from an underlying non-COVID illness and are taken to the hospital. This hospital is subject to certificate-of-need (CON) laws, which means that there are government-imposed limitations on the number of CT scanners, respirators, and many […]
Mobility barriers to Euro health workers hamper COVID response
“Demand and supply of health professional: imbalances are prevailing” By Isilda Mara, courtesy of WiiW The retirement of baby boomers, the rise in life expectancy and the aging of the population are all warning signs that the demand for health professionals is bound to expand. Now COVID-19 has shown how exposed European countries […]
Washington Beyond the Headlines: Tax Cuts at Stake In November
By Andy Blom, TES Washington Editor Wow! Busy week. Some states are opening, some states are dragging their feet, the stock market is climbing, employment is rocketing back up but people are still social distancing unless they’re protesting. And, in the true American spirit, some people just have never stopped working through it all, […]
Flawed Imperial College study economic impact: Canada’s case
“The Flawed COVID-19 Model That Locked Down Canada” By Peter St. Onge and Gaël Campan, courtesy of IEDM Before mid-March, most Canadians saw COVID-19 as an overseas problem. The emphasis was on returning Canadians stuck in China, and there had been a single COVID-19 death in Canada, a BC man in his 80s with […]
Public health responses and their economic costs
“The consequences of the Covid-19 lockdown: what does history teach us?” By Sergio Beraldo, courtesy of IREF Last February, this website hosted an article titled “The unintended consequences of coronavirus”. At the time the article was published, the situation was not at all dramatic in Europe. For example, the official Covid-19 […]
Killing the patient to save the finger: COVID-19 is a metaphor for our time
By Martin J. Stransky, MD, courtesy of The New Presence In the coming months, the current CoV19 epidemic will be increasingly viewed from a social, political, and economic perspective. Though the epidemic isn’t over yet, some telling conclusions can already be drawn regarding laws of human nature and our current society. […]
Will Post-Pandemic California Be More Progressive or More Libertarian?
By Kerry Jackson, Pacific Research Institute From government officials to pundits, we’ve been told the world will be a different place after the COVID-19 lockdowns have been lifted. What, one wonders, will California be like? Will it move even further left? If we’re willing to listen, the pandemic has provided some instructive lessons on […]
WHO’s Failings: Time for a New UN Health Agency?
By Roger Bate, AEI President Trump has halted funds to the World Health Organization (WHO). Undoubtedly he is looking to avoid blame for a slow U.S. government response to the COVID-19 pandemic and the tens of thousands of US deaths. But he also has a point. We need a global agency to combat […]
Fred Gluck: Imagining a Bipartisan, Systematic Approach to Healthcare Reform
By Fred Gluck, TES Contributor As COVID-19 rivets our attention on health care, all proposed fixes for our health care system – from Medicare for All to a lightly regulated free market model – have the same fatal flaw. They merely tinker with the status quo, a slapdash, piecemeal design that will never […]