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Think of your least favorite presidential candidate. Now imagine s/he wins. Doesn’t limiting government power seem like a good idea?
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Michael F. Cannon 🇮🇪🇺🇸 retweeted
📈Kentucky premiums jumped 30 percent this year, with 19 percent more planned for 2027.
@mfcannon argues that the state's legislature can offer relief without spending a dime by letting residents buy plans from US territories.
Read more: kentuckylantern.com/2026/10/…
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Michael F. Cannon 🇮🇪🇺🇸 retweeted
TBF who could've ever predicted that putting the government in charge of something would make it more expensive
Ironically, the driving force behind surging Obamacare premiums is…price controls.
Even supporters who know price controls are dumb consider Obamacare’s to be above criticism.
But freeing people from them and other Obamacare regs could save many 60% on their health insurance.
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Eager to hop a plane tomorrow to present at this conference a health insurance affordability effort that @cobrown and @bluegrasspolicy are bringing to Kentucky.
(Special treat: presenting alongside former Cato colleagues Brittany La Couture and Trisha Singh.)
If you work in healthcare economics, public policy, political science, or related fields, we want to hear from you.
The Consumer Choice Center and King's College London are joining forces for the 1st Health Economics Symposium. A 2-day global forum on the governance roots of the US healthcare crisis.
October 20–21, 2026. London, United Kingdom. 🧵 ⤵️
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Michael F. Cannon 🇮🇪🇺🇸 retweeted
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Ironically, the driving force behind surging Obamacare premiums is…price controls.
Even supporters who know price controls are dumb consider Obamacare’s to be above criticism.
But freeing people from them and other Obamacare regs could save many 60% on their health insurance.
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Ironically, the driving force behind surging Obamacare premiums is…price controls.
Even supporters who know price controls are dumb consider Obamacare’s to be above criticism.
But freeing people from them and other Obamacare regs could save many 60% on their health insurance.
Scoop: Healthcare.gov premiums for benchmark plans are set to rise 11% on average in 2027. It's the 2nd year in a row for double-digit spikes but not nearly as bad as last yr's 30%. Insurer participation is down 14%. washingtonsun.com/health/aca…
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"the Federal Government was moving into a major area of medical care with practically no review of alternatives, options, trade-offs, or costs."
The author, who helped enact it, is describing which government venture?
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/article…
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"One of the lessons we learned from Medicare and Medicaid was...whatever estimate the Congressional Budget Office puts on the cost of the program, it will be more."
washingtonpost.com/archive/l…
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"The flat tax won the Nobel Prize!"
"Um, that's not what the commi--"
"THE FLAT TAX WON THE NOBEL PRIZE!"
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