Adding Up the Reasons For Expensive Health Care

  • Nathan Benefield
  • February 15, 2007

Washington Post article details why healthcare is so expensive in the US. Doctor’s pay, unnecessary testing, and hospital amenities play a major role (and the third-party payer model falls…

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Talk of Universal Health Care Grows

  • Nathan Benefield
  • January 22, 2007

Washington Post on Pennsylvania and other states’ plans for universal health insurance. Twice the article compares health insurance mandates to auto insurance: Some plans mandate that every individual…

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The Right Minimum Wage: $0

  • Nathan Benefield
  • January 4, 2007

George Will in the Washington Post on why the nostalgia for New Deal era Big Government proposals – such as the minimum wage – are as bad an idea…

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Taxes & Economy

Economic Benefit of Wal-Mart

  • Nathan Benefield
  • August 30, 2006

Op-Ed by Robert Samuleson in today’s Washington Post on how Wal-Mart’s low-price policies benefit all Americans – doing a much better job controlling inflation than the Federal Reserve. “A…

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Taxes & Economy

Cooling Off About Keeping Up

  • Nathan Benefield
  • August 9, 2006

Robert Samuelson editorial in the Washington Post on how the US will not be able to continue to be as dominant in the global economy in every sector as…

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Public Union Democracy

The New Union Label: Closed!

  • February 14, 2006

From the New York Times: The Center for Union Facts shot onto the public stage yesterday by running full-page ads in The New York Times, The Washington Post…

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