John Goodman’s Commentaries
Original Article: The Heritage Foundation KEY TAKEAWAYS President Donald Trump says he wants health reform that will be better than...
The key elements of the Healthcare Contract with America include: Tax Fairness: Families at the same income level should get the same...
Research Fellow John C. Goodman, author of Priceless: Curing the Healthcare Crisis, discusses alternative plans to Obama’s Affordable...
By John C. Goodman, Peter J. Ferrara, J.D. Independent Institute Fairness: All families should receive the same tax relief when they...
Two things are obvious. Access to the Covid-19 vaccine has not been equal. And in many cases, the distribution is unrelated to medical...
An estimated 26 million people are managing some of their own health care dollars by means of a Health Savings Account (HSA). Although...
Prior to the November elections, National Review editor Rich Lowry made a prediction. If Donald Trump loses, he said, it will be his...
Although controversial at the time, the Republican tax reform bill passed by Congress almost four years ago promised benefits for almost...
Baylor Scott & White Health, the largest hospital system in Texas, just announced it is laying off 102 employees in finance and...
Over the past year we have probably seen more news articles about prescription drugs than in the previous ten years combined. The reason,...
Deregulation and market forces are making care more available at lower cost. Our health-care system is experiencing rapid, powerful...
When competing on a level playing field, the public option offers no silver bullet for reducing health-care costs. So why is the left so...
One of the most widely repeated myths in health policy is the idea that Obamacare is protecting people with pre-existing conditions. Many...
Goodman Institute economists Lawrence Kotlikoff and Alan Auerbach were the brains behind tax reform (Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017). Much...
Former Congresswoman Nan Hayworth, Newt Gingrich and I discuss healthcare in the next election and beyond. Newt and I have a mutual...
There is a cheap, simple way to control Covid-19. Writing in the New York Times NYT +0.6% the other day, Boston University economist...
We often hear that there’s a tradeoff between saving lives and economic performance. In this case of COVID-19, there’s not. They go...
These are strange times. Republicans are in court trying to abolish Obamacare. Democrats in Congress are trying to abolish something...
All western democracies have government programs in place to protect people against risks, especially the risk of loss of employment,...
One of the hallmarks of the American economic system is our commitment to the idea of competition. We believe in it so sincerely that we...
Because of budget shortfalls, the Heartland Institute suspended publication of Health Care News in March. Fortunately, the Goodman...
Big national shocks invariably increase the role of government in our lives. World War I, World War II, the Cold War and every other...
A revolution is occurring in the way medical care is being delivered in the United States. It is happening almost overnight. People have...
Triage is a term every medical professional is familiar with. In emergency rooms it happens all the time. The average wait time in the ER...
Have you ever wondered how a free market for health care would handle the COVID-19 crisis? Most patients would have a health kit in their...
Critics of President Trump’s response to the coronavirus crisis characterize it as knee-jerk, spur-of-the-moment, and grasping at any...
Arguing with Zombies is the title of a new book by New York Times columnist Paul Krugman. Although the “book” is actually a collection of...
By now it should be clear to everyone that “Medicare for All” doesn’t really mean Medicare for all. In fact, it means getting rid of...
How Obamacare Made Things Worse for Patients With Preexisting Conditions John Goodman / @DrJohnCGoodman / Devon Herrick / @DevonHerrick...
In just about every critique of the U.S. health care system, the subject of prices is front and center. See for example, It’s the Prices...
Congress has just made major changes to the tax law. They include one change I argued for more than a decade ago. Other changes mix the...
Tax reform championed by Donald Trump and passed by a Republican Congress was a boon for middle-income families. According to a study by...
This article is coauthored by Lawrence Wedekind More than 61,300 people in the U.S. died from drug overdoses in 2017, up from the...
Surprise medical bills arise when hospital patients discover that certain fees are not covered by their health insurance. The reason for...
For the past ten years Republicans in Congress have been largely AWOL on health care. If memory serves, there has never been a hearing to...
The Kaiser Family Foundation recently reported that the average cost of employer provided health care coverage for a family has exceeded...
I’m often asked if the free market can work in health care. My quick answer is: that’s the only thing that does work. Show me a health...
Bernie Sanders wants to get rid of private health insurance. Quite a few Democrats, including a number of presidential candidates, seem...
If you are a high net worth individual you probably already know about it. A seminar on the subject at Manhattan’s Harvard Club attracted...
Surprise medical billing is a problem that needs a solution. My own preference is for a Federal Trade Commission (FTC) solution. Senator...
Some people can’t see the forest for the trees. Every few weeks or so I see another article in the national news announcing that...
With help from Congress, he can drastically transform our dysfunctional system By Marie Fishpaw and John C. Goodman President Donald...
By John C. Goodman As Democratic presidential candidates veer left to satisfy the party’s radical base, it’s easy to dismiss their ideas...
If there is one thing that tends to unite economists across the political spectrum it’s the view that the government should not give...
This post is coauthored by Lawrence J. Wedekind. The Trump administration is making fundamental changes to the Medicare program. These...
This post is coauthored by Lawrence J. Wedekind. As we wrote on Monday, the Trump administration is making fundamental changes to the...
Trump Took a Big Step Toward Personal and Portable Health Insurance An Alternative to Obamacare is Already Halfway There In an ideal...
In an ideal world, most people would own their own health insurance and take it with them as they travel from job to job and in and out...
In one case, an insurer prevented a woman from getting a CT scan her doctor ordered. In another, a mother couldn’t afford the full...
