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What DOGE Can Do For Social Security – OpEd

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Why Do We Care How Much We Spend On Medicaid? – OpEd

In evaluating the success of Obamacare in general and Medicaid expansion in particular, reporters and commentators have tended to focus

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What Is The Right Price To Pay For Drugs? (Part III) – OpEd

In the previous two columns, we saw how a free health care market would arrive at prices for brand drugs.

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What Is The Right Price To Pay For Drugs? (Part II) – OpEd

In response to Donald Trump’s invitation to a national discussion on how much we should pay for drugs, I proposed

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Can Trump Break The Iran Deadlock And Reshape The Middle East? – OpEd

By Alon Ben-Meir The Trump administration’s pursuit of a negotiated agreement over Iran’s nuclear program is the only sound policy

24.05.2025 6

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What Is The Right Price To Pay For Drugs? (Part I) – OpEd

President Trump thinks Americans pay too much for brand drugs. Under his proposal, the U.S. would pay the lowest price for

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Government Versus Your Health – OpEd

A new book by Dr. Jeffrey Singer proposes a simple idea: “Every human being of adult years and sound mind

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A Tax Man With Convictions And Courage – OpEd

By Lawrence W. Reed Have you ever heard of someone so principled that he quit his job rather than do

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Why Can’t Every School Be A Magnet School? – OpEd

Some time ago, my think tank commissioned Dr. Lori Taylor, at that time an economics professor at Southern Methodist University,

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Why Can’t Every School Be a Magnet School?

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What Should Republicans Do About Medicaid? – OpEd

Republicans are in a bind. In order to give substance to their new budget bill, they need to cut Medicaid

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Where DOGE And The Tax Bill Should Intersect – OpEd

In economics, the word “waste” has a very precise meaning. It’s not in the eyes of the beholder. Instead, waste

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Assessing The Biden Presidency – OpEd

If public opinion polls are the guide, Joe Biden has been the worst president since Richard Nixon. Yet New York...

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New Syrian Government Faces Herculean Task – OpEd

By Dr Alon Ben-Meir Recognizing the horror the Syrian people have endured over the past 14 years, the question is,

14.01.2025 4

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How To Cut Trillions In Wasteful Health Care Spending – OpEd

While Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy pursue a goal of reducing government waste, the critics have been quick to claim

14.01.2025 9

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Can We Have Health Care Without Health Insurance Companies? – OpEd

In the aftermath of the senseless murder of the CEO of UnitedHealthcare, responsible commentators were quick to condemn the act. “Murder is bad,...

07.01.2025 7

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Why Do So Many People Hate Health Insurers? – OpEd

The public reaction to the fatal shooting of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson has been nothing short of shocking. A post on X wishing that the...

17.12.2024 4

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Why Do So Many People Seem To Be Angry With Health Insurers?

Activists protest outside the Capitol last summer to stop what they feel are wrongful delays and ... [ ] denials in private Medicare Advantage...

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What The FDA Gets Wrong About Drug Ads – OpEd

There are only two countries in the world where drug manufacturers are allowed to advertise their products directly to consumers: the United States...

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Who Should Pay For Really Expensive Drugs? – OpEd

When is the last time you saw a news headline about cancer patients who died because they were unable to afford a drug that could have saved their...

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Medicare Advantage Is Saving Taxpayers Money – OpEd

A new study finds that the migration of people from traditional Medicare to the Medicare Advantage program over the last decade has saved the...

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Why Lower-Income Workers Are Trending Republican – OpEd

It’s hard to be an economist and, at the same time, be a Democrat. The reason? Most left-leaning Democrats reject the main teachings of...

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Harris’s hiring should worry swing states

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Why lower-income workers are trending Republican

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What Should Be Done With Obamacare? – OpEd

Regardless of who wins the election, Congress will have to deal with two important questions next year: whether to extend the Republican (Trump)...

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Sense And Nonsense About Taxes – OpEd

As we draw closer to the November elections, there is an inordinate amount of attention being paid to “disinformation,” and a great deal of fact-...

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What The Left Is Getting Wrong About The GOP’s Health Ideas – OpEd

In an interview the other day, J.D. Vance said that Donald Trump will “promote more choice in our health-care system and not have a...

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Should The Government Guarantee Everyone A Minimum Income? – OpEd

A number of versions of this idea have been proposed. There have also been a number of experiments with the idea, and at least one very rigorous...

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By Saul Zimet During Vivek Ramaswamy’s recent event at the Cato Institute, protestors derailed his presentationby getting on stage and chanting “...

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Even though the United States has the most expensive health care system in the world, we actually have fewer doctors than we need. The average wait...

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Do People Vote On What They Know Or How They Feel? – OpEd

The conventional description of the American political system holds that Republicans represent the rich. Democrats, by contrast, are said to...

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A Platform For Democrats – OpEd

Now that the Republicans have completed their convention and chosen their presidential candidate, more than one columnist has asked, “What big...

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Matt Yglesias Discovers Public Choice – OpEd

Have you ever wondered why reasonably informed and otherwise rational people are “progressives” and why they vote for left-wing politicians? Matt...

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