Jon Walker wrote a wonderful critique of Obamacare that Kevin Drum published in pieces so I’m copying it below so that it is all in one place. 1. State control combined with zero direct incentives for the states to make…

Before becoming president, Donald Trump was a long-time proponent of single-payer health insurance (aka Medicare for All).  That shouldn’t be surprising given that Trump was a liberal Democrat for most of his life until Obama was elected and then Trump’s…

On the one hand, deregulating the market for the pill would improve health, lower costs, reduce abortion, and eliminate a political football. On the other hand, it would reduce incomes for physicians and drug manufacturers, a small passionate minority thinks…

The Nobel Prize for medicine went to cancer researchers this week who developed immunotherapy drugs that can be miraculously effective, but as Julia Belluz reports, the prize is also a reminder of how expensive the cancer treatments they developed have…

Most people have never heard of a Pharmacy Benefit Management company (PBM), but a PBM probably has tremendous control over the kinds of medicines you are prescribed and sets the prices you pay for them. It has been one of…

Most Americans think that our healthcare system is worth spending a lot of money, but there is some research that indicates that it doesn’t make people healthier! For example, Ross Douthat criticized Republicans for not repealing Obamacare because he doesn’t…