Commentary
Business & Economics
Biden’s rent-control plan will only make America’s housing crisis worse
President Joe Biden is suggesting that a federal limit on annual rent increases in residential units will ease housing costs. This is what happens when economist Milton Friedman isn’t “running the show”: Policymakers follow ideas that make the problem they say they’re solving infinitely worse. “While the prior administration gave special ...
California
Read the latest on CA outmigration
Is Atlas shrugging in California?
The working title for the Ayn Rand classic “Atlas Shrugged” was “The Strike.” Rand wanted to show what the world would be like if the competent, the rational, the men and women of excellence walked away from their work. It was a “rebellion of the unrecognized and often persecuted creative ...
Commentary
U.S. Left Take Note: UK’s Healthcare an Unending Nightmare
Great Britain has new leadership. The Labour Party rode dissatisfaction with the Conservative Party, and in particular its stewardship of the country’s National Health Service, to victory in this month’s elections. Democrats in the United States may hope they can follow their left-wing brethren to victory this fall by campaigning ...
California
Read the latest on Project Homekey
Disregard the spin. Project Roomkey is failing
In a blatant attempt to rewrite history, Gov. Gavin Newsom claims that Project Roomkey was a great success, which provides important lessons for other states. The only lesson other states should take from the governor’s program is what not to do. To facilitate this revision, research firm Abt Global was contracted ...
Commentary
Biden has given us worse healthcare
President Joe Biden proudly touted his record on healthcare during last month’s disastrous presidential debate. “The American public has greater healthcare coverage today than ever before,” he proclaimed. That’s debatable, to say the least. His administration’s policies have caused health insurance costs to surge. Biden began his presidency by increasing public subsidies for coverage through the exchanges. ...
Commentary
Read Biden's latest defense of price controls on insulin
In Debate Biden Lost on Substance, Style, and More
President Joe Biden’s clumsy, halting performance at the first presidential debate was nothing short of disastrous. But the substance of his remarks, especially on healthcare, is just as worrying. Take his defense of the Inflation Reduction Act’s price controls on insulin for Medicare Part D enrollees. As the president put it, “We brought ...
Commentary
The Medicare doomsday clock ticks closer to midnight
One day, our grandchildren may talk about Medicare the way we talk about Bernie Madoff. In May, Medicare’s trustees released their annual report on the program’s finances, and things are not looking good. The entitlement spent $12 billion more than it took in from taxes in 2023. Absent change, Medicare’s ...
Commentary
Read about Biden's healthcare promises on the campaign trail
Joe Biden’s False Promise To Young Voters
In the lead-up to last month’s presidential debate, pundits predicted that President Biden would lean into his standard defense of his former boss’s signature healthcare legislation in a bid to attract young voters, whose lack of enthusiasm for the president has the White House worried. It’s safe to say that Team Biden ...
Commentary
Read the latest on out-of-control Medicaid spending
Medicaid is for health care, not housing
Now, however, Medicaid is funding a slew of additional benefits — from meal deliveries to rent — on the pretext that they “influence health status” for the better. And next on that list of benefits could be affordable housing. Health insurers are investing billions in the construction of new apartments ...
Commentary
Read about latest problems with Obamacare
Enhanced Obamacare Subsidies Irresistibly Inviting for Fraud
A new study from the Paragon Health Institute reveals that they’re also an invitation to fraud. As many as five million people receive free, taxpayer-funded marketplace coverage even though they’re not eligible for such largesse. It’s far from clear how many of these patients are deliberately misleading the government and ...
Biden’s rent-control plan will only make America’s housing crisis worse
President Joe Biden is suggesting that a federal limit on annual rent increases in residential units will ease housing costs. This is what happens when economist Milton Friedman isn’t “running the show”: Policymakers follow ideas that make the problem they say they’re solving infinitely worse. “While the prior administration gave special ...
Read the latest on CA outmigration
Is Atlas shrugging in California?
The working title for the Ayn Rand classic “Atlas Shrugged” was “The Strike.” Rand wanted to show what the world would be like if the competent, the rational, the men and women of excellence walked away from their work. It was a “rebellion of the unrecognized and often persecuted creative ...
U.S. Left Take Note: UK’s Healthcare an Unending Nightmare
Great Britain has new leadership. The Labour Party rode dissatisfaction with the Conservative Party, and in particular its stewardship of the country’s National Health Service, to victory in this month’s elections. Democrats in the United States may hope they can follow their left-wing brethren to victory this fall by campaigning ...
Read the latest on Project Homekey
Disregard the spin. Project Roomkey is failing
In a blatant attempt to rewrite history, Gov. Gavin Newsom claims that Project Roomkey was a great success, which provides important lessons for other states. The only lesson other states should take from the governor’s program is what not to do. To facilitate this revision, research firm Abt Global was contracted ...
Biden has given us worse healthcare
President Joe Biden proudly touted his record on healthcare during last month’s disastrous presidential debate. “The American public has greater healthcare coverage today than ever before,” he proclaimed. That’s debatable, to say the least. His administration’s policies have caused health insurance costs to surge. Biden began his presidency by increasing public subsidies for coverage through the exchanges. ...
Read Biden's latest defense of price controls on insulin
In Debate Biden Lost on Substance, Style, and More
President Joe Biden’s clumsy, halting performance at the first presidential debate was nothing short of disastrous. But the substance of his remarks, especially on healthcare, is just as worrying. Take his defense of the Inflation Reduction Act’s price controls on insulin for Medicare Part D enrollees. As the president put it, “We brought ...
The Medicare doomsday clock ticks closer to midnight
One day, our grandchildren may talk about Medicare the way we talk about Bernie Madoff. In May, Medicare’s trustees released their annual report on the program’s finances, and things are not looking good. The entitlement spent $12 billion more than it took in from taxes in 2023. Absent change, Medicare’s ...
Read about Biden's healthcare promises on the campaign trail
Joe Biden’s False Promise To Young Voters
In the lead-up to last month’s presidential debate, pundits predicted that President Biden would lean into his standard defense of his former boss’s signature healthcare legislation in a bid to attract young voters, whose lack of enthusiasm for the president has the White House worried. It’s safe to say that Team Biden ...
Read the latest on out-of-control Medicaid spending
Medicaid is for health care, not housing
Now, however, Medicaid is funding a slew of additional benefits — from meal deliveries to rent — on the pretext that they “influence health status” for the better. And next on that list of benefits could be affordable housing. Health insurers are investing billions in the construction of new apartments ...
Read about latest problems with Obamacare
Enhanced Obamacare Subsidies Irresistibly Inviting for Fraud
A new study from the Paragon Health Institute reveals that they’re also an invitation to fraud. As many as five million people receive free, taxpayer-funded marketplace coverage even though they’re not eligible for such largesse. It’s far from clear how many of these patients are deliberately misleading the government and ...
