Tag: michael tanner

Your Health Insurance—Get the Boss Out

Why is it that your boss is determining what health-care package is right for you, asks Michael D. Tanner, a senior fellow at Cato...

Happy 4th of July Veterans and Taxpayers

As Robert A. McDonald prepares for confirmation hearings as successor to Eric K. Shinseki, he must also prepare for wrenching stories like this: Typical of...

“Relative,” the Low Bar to Beat

"Obamacare is the  gift that keeps giving," writes Michael Tanner of the Cato Institute. Read here from Mr. Tanner the woes plaguing some of...

A Band-Aid for the DOA VA Mess?

Cato Institute's Michael Tanner explains why the McCain-Sanders bill is not exactly an elixir for the grotesque VA woes. Instead, we get from our...

Praying for More Scandals

Cato Institute’s Michael Tanner explains that the twin headliners of the disgraceful Veterans Affairs scandal and the Taliban prisoner swap for Sgt. Bergdahl were...

Shock Therapy Capitalism

I've written before about former Polish deputy prime minister and finance minister Leszek Balcerowicz, who was honored last night with the Cato Institute’s biennial Milton...

Government-Run Disaster

Cato Institute’s Michael Tanner points out that government healthcare systems have a very poor record of delivering what is promised. As you probably have...

Making the Poor Not Poor

The latest battle cry from the Left is inequality. Michael D. Tanner of the Cato Institute outlines the political narrative that President Obama, Paul...

A 29% Sales Tax?

The government already pays more than half of every dollar spent on health care in the U.S. As Cato Institute’s Michael Tanner explains here,...

Obamacare—a Gigantic Wealth Transfer

Cato Institute’s Michael Tanner explains the pitfalls of government dependency and why—when the welfare state becomes ever more unaffordable—it is bad for taxpayers and...

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