IRA Sows Seeds of Socialistic Health Policy
“The [Inflation Reduction Act]’s false promises will eventually be proven hollow—and extremely costly,” a recent Locke’s Notebook...
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James Edwards
- Dec 1, 2022
- 3 min
IRA’s Price Controls Make False Promises, Will Deliver All Too Real Socialist Results
Newly enacted government price controls aren’t even implemented yet, but they’re already having an effect. But instead of forcing down...
James Edwards
- Aug 5, 2022
- 3 min
"Build Back Manchin" Is Inflationary Tax-and-Spend
From a property rights perspective, the Democrats’ budget reconciliation bill that Sens. Joe Manchin and Chuck Schumer brokered turns out...
James Edwards
- Jul 19, 2022
- 3 min
A Closer Look at the Drug Pricing Scheme
Thanks to Sen. Joe Manchin, other politicians in his party have seen item after socialist item fall from the budget reconciliation...
James Edwards
- Jun 27, 2022
- 2 min
Just Rhetoric on Inflation
There he goes again. President Biden’s launched yet another round of blame-shifting for his 40-year-high inflation. And he’s pushing...
James Edwards
- May 10, 2022
- 3 min
House GOP’s Healthy Future
House Republicans have begun rolling out proposals from their Healthy Future Task Force. The policy initiatives from the Treatments...
James Edwards
- Feb 1, 2022
- 3 min
BBB’s Dead; Socialist Price Controls Still Breathe
One thing that remains on the table for many in Congress and the White House is certain to damage some treasures of America’s health...
James Edwards
- Dec 10, 2021
- 3 min
The Grinches Stealing America’s Christmas
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi are behaving a lot like the unrepentant Grinch Who Stole Christmas —...
James Edwards
- Nov 18, 2021
- 2 min
Wait for a CBO Reality Check on Budget Reconciliation
Voting on the budget reconciliation bill without having a cost estimate from the Congressional Budget Office, which House Democrats are...
James Edwards
- Oct 13, 2021
- 3 min
Lessons from Messing with Medicare
In 1989, a powerful Washington politician messed with Medicare. Grandma and Grandpa weren’t happy. The guy who was untouchable in the...
James Edwards
- Jun 22, 2021
- 2 min
U.S. Voters to Pols: Drop the Radicalism
It turns out the American people aren’t as generous with other people’s property or with their hard-earned tax dollars as some...
James Edwards
- Feb 26, 2021
- 3 min
WTO and Property Theft That Aids China
It isn’t surprising when nations with little respect for property rights use multilateral bodies to take away someone’s property. It may...
James Edwards
- Feb 2, 2021
- 3 min
Price Controls By Any Other Name Smell as Rank
The famous line from Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet says “a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.” Like that famous illustration,...
James Edwards
- Apr 2, 2020
- 2 min
Property Rights Key for COVID Cures
It should be hard to miss, but America’s biomedical innovators and industry — that is, private companies putting their own or investors’...
James Edwards
- Nov 9, 2019
- 3 min
Higher Costs, Lower Quality, Longer Waits
Let’s be blunt about so-called “Medicare for All:” We’re talking about government-run, government-controlled health care. Period. A...
James Edwards
- Jul 12, 2019
- 2 min
Bad Ideas for Gov’t in Health Care
You have to be concerned over the “inflationary penalty” proposed as a means of reducing drug prices in Medicare Part D. Well, you do if...
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