The Failure of LBJ's Great Society and What It Means for the 21st Century
Historian Amity Shlaes talks about the last time a president massively expanded the federal government to help people.
Historian Amity Shlaes talks about the last time a president massively expanded the federal government to help people.
Warren claims total costs for middle-class families would go down under her plan, but there are reasons to doubt this.
Amity Shlaes's new history of the late 1960s explains the failure of the last time the federal government tried to fix all that was wrong with America.
Taiwan’s system is less generous than the Sanders plan—yet it still struggles with cost control and access to care.
And what predictions will we shank in 2020 and beyond?
A range of libertarian-world approaches to the impending trial of Donald Trump
She's not a libertarian, but Hawaii Rep. Tulsi Gabbard is shaking up the race for the Democratic nomination.
Last night's debate started with attacks on Trump, but turned into a referendum on Elizabeth Warren.
By planning to pass single-payer in year three of her presidency, she’s acknowledging it will never happen at all.
The presidential candidate wanted a proposal that was airtight and easy to explain. Her plan is neither.
The Democratic candidates are making promises they can’t deliver.
She hasn't come up with a plan to pay for single-payer. She's come up with a plan to let her claim she has a plan.
Senator can't even accurately represent a plan whose numbers don't remotely add up
Warren says it’s not a tax. But what else would you call a requirement that employers send money to the federal government to finance a public program?
The Reason Roundtable analyzes an establishment smear against a foreign policy heretic, and laments the bipartisan panic against online speech.
Health care policy has dominated the early 2020 debates, and Obamacare has few defenders left.
Her refusal to answer a question about taxes isn’t just dodgy; it’s designed to mislead.
Tonight's Democratic debate is the Massachusetts senator's moment to shine, if she can withstand attacks from her rivals.
Stossel's full interview with Tulsi Gabbard covering war, drugs, free healthcare, free college, the minimum wage, and more.
An argument against Bernie Sanders' health care plan in The New York Times.
In the latest primary showdown, Democrats talked health care and trade but left debt and deficits behind.
The public option comes with plenty of pitfalls.
It’s not just obstructionist Republicans who won't buy into Medicare for All—it’s Democrats themselves.
Health insurance doesn't just protect people from financial ruin. It insulates them from individual decisions about price and service quality.
The details are reeeaaaaaally sketchy, but here's what we know now.
The California senator's history of flip-flops reveal the emptiness of her campaign—and looming problems for her party.
The idea that "deficits don't matter" has been growing among Trump-supporting Republicans. Democrats are preparing to take full advantage.
A decade after Obamacare, the Democratic Party has embraced health care radicalism.
The presidential candidate is still dodging tough questions.
The cost of single-payer would dwarf the price of Obamacare.
Biden is framing his new plan as a defense of Obamacare. It's not.
The presidential hopeful has flip-flopped on the issue several times.
He might not be polling well, but his proposal on health care draws on work from prominent libertarian economists.
By paying dramatically lower rates, the single-payer plan would lead to a contraction in health care services.
Hospitals gamed the system and costs didn’t come down.
The president's first big rally was a greatest hits show that dodged many of today's biggest issues.
The federal budget situation used to be an emergency. What happened?
Bernie Sanders' Democratic rivals may laugh at his socialist pretensions. But in important ways, he's winning.
If the past is any sort of guide to what comes next, his fears about a jobless economy (and his policy prescriptions to fix it) are completely misplaced.
Single-payer would eliminate private health insurance as we know it today.
The nation's largest health care program faces a shortfall in less than a decade.
Designing and implementing a government-run health plan would raise many difficult questions.
The Colorado Democrat opposes Medicare for All and universal free college.
A new Congressional Budget Office report shows the consequences of undoing Trump-era rules on less regulated health coverage.
Being a presidential candidate means never having to say sorry for heavy-handed proposals to limit choice and promise free stuff.
The former vice president has a long legacy of expanding federal power.
The democratic socialist from Vermont wants to radically expand coverage and benefits—while paying far less for health care services.