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Posts Tagged: “Healthcare Costs“

November 8, 2024 Original Analysis

The Free Market Prescription for Soaring Healthcare Costs

America’s healthcare system is at a crossroads. Despite repeated promises from elected officials to rein in costs, healthcare spending in the United States continues to increase at an alarming rate. In 2022, the U.S. devoted 17.3% of its GDP to health expenditures, nearly 40% more than Germany, the next highest-spending G-7 country. This excessive spending […]

August 16, 2024 Original Analysis

Populist “Kamalanomics” Will Make Inflation Even Worse

Unveiling her set of “populist” economic actions for her first 100 days in office, Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris has promised a slew of government interventions to ease economic pain for Americans. But, like all economic interventions, they’ll make the problem even worse, cutting out the free market’s natural balancing mechanisms in favor of central […]

June 16, 2024 Original Analysis

Free Money Advocates: Undoing Medical Debt From Credit Reports Isn’t Enough

The Biden Administration’s Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) just issued a proposal to ban medical debt from factoring into your credit score. But for free-money socialists and their Keynesian bedfellows, this doesn’t go nearly far enough: short of canceling medical debt entirely, nothing else is acceptable.