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May 11, 2012 | Wall Street Journal

ObamaCare's Killer Device Tax

The U.S. leads the world in medical technology. A punitive new excise levy jeopardizes jobs and innovation...
May 9, 2012 | EconLog

Economic Analysis of Prop 29

Next month, we California voters will get to vote on Proposition 29, an initiative to raise the cigarette tax by $1.00 per pack...I'll put my comments under two headings: (1) effect of the tax increase on tax revenues, and (2) effect of the tax increase on health care spending...
May 2, 2012 | What Paul Gregory Is Writing About

Medical Costs Slowing Down? Obama Care Will Take Care of That

Under ObamaCare, non-partisan technocrats decide which medical services should be expanded and which cut back. Such decisions are not to be left to families who have to “think twice” about how they spend their money...
May 2, 2012 | Wall Street Journal

Exposing the Medicare Double Count

The same money can't be spent twice. ObamaCare tries to do precisely that, and the government will have to borrow the difference...
May 2, 2012 | Washington Times

Obama policies threaten the most vulnerable

Obamacare imperils America’s women...
April 24, 2012 | EconLog

Economists on Health-Care Licensing

Milton Friedman triumphs, kind of...
April 20, 2012 | EconLog

Blinder on Health Care

Alan Blinder, in today's Wall Street Journal, has an interesting piece attacking Supreme Court judges who would actually seriously consider finding the recent health care law unconstitutional...
April 11, 2012 | Advancing a Free Society

More on the budgetary effect of health care reform

Today Avik Roy of Forbes kindly provided me with a forum for responding to some of the questions that have arisen about my study showing that the 2010 health care reform law will add substantially to federal deficits...
April 11, 2012 | Washington Times

Health care law cripples U.S. finances

Most affordable outcome would be total repeal...
April 5, 2012 | Lawfare

The President’s Comments on the Supreme Court

It was not a bad idea because it constituted bullying of the Court. It was a bad idea – at least from the President’s perspective – because it makes it harder for the Justices to rule in favor of the President’s position...