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New Posts on ObamaCare and Immigration

At Mises Canada I have two new posts: ==> This one is fun. I just walk through a NYT article on New York state’s experience with ObamaCare to show how it is screwing certain people. Oh yeah, the article was singled out by Paul Krugman to show how great ObamaCare is. ==> In this one […]

Krugman Wonders Why He’s the Only One Parroting Administration Talking Points on ObamaCare

Remember back on the day the Healthcare.gov website launched, that Krugman reported to his readers: So, very early reports are that Obamacare exchanges are, as expected, having some technical glitches on the first day — maybe even a bit worse than expected, because it appears that volume has been much bigger than predicted. Here’s what […]

A Reader Email Re: Gaming ObamaCare

I am not endorsing the following, but a reader sent it and I thought I should at least pass it along to all of you (he gave me permission to reprint): Here’s a thought for you or an Austrian colleague I’ve never seen printed that you may consider. “ACA will cause more startup companies and […]

ObamaCare Going to Crash the System Sooner Than Most Think

Naturally in my circle of colleagues and acquaintances, there are a lot of critics of ObamaCare who object to it not just on principled grounds, but also predict that it will “wreck” U.S. health care delivery. However, what I realized just the other day is that when I consider the people who actually work in […]

Can’t Make ObamaCare Without Breaking Some Households

My latest at Mises Canada. In addition to being wrong on the economics of it, our progressive supporters of ObamaCare display a remarkable callousness to the actual human beings involved.

Summarizing David R. Henderson’s Point About ObamaCare and Jobs

Some people in the comments were wishing we could boil down David’s excellent analysis into a pithy statement, and in the comments of a later post one guy got the point backwards, so let me repeat here what I said to clarify. The point David made was (in my words) (1) just because workers might […]

Casey Mulligan and John Cochrane Crystallize My Angst on CBO ObamaCare Jobs Estimate

I hadn’t read this WSJ piece on Casey Mulligan until the persistent von Pepe sent me Cochrane’s blog treatment of it. Since I already knew Mulligan’s basic points, I didn’t think I’d get much out of it; after all, the CBO itself cited Mulligan’s research in the footnotes when explaining why it drastically increased its […]

David R. Henderson on CBO and ObamaCare

The opening paragraphs from my new Mises Canada post: The good thing about the Internet is that there is a Hayekian safety net: When a bunch of free-market economists are idiots and overlook an obvious point, eventually somebody comes along to rescue them. For today’s example, we have the arguments over the CBO’s estimate that […]