John C. Goodman
Freelance Contributor at Freelance
CEO & Founder of @GoodmanInst & author of Priceless: Curing the Healthcare Crisis (@independentinst). Known as the Father of Health Savings Accounts.
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2 days ago |
forbes.com | John C. Goodman
A new book by Dr. Jeffrey Singer proposes a simple idea: “Every human being of adult years and sound mind has the right to determine what shall be done with his own body.” You might think that principle is hard to argue with. Yet in Your Body, Your Health Care, Singer shows that government potentially interferes with just about every decision we make in health care.
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2 weeks ago |
tvmovie.de | Joel Coen |Jeff Bridges |John C. Goodman |Julianne Moore
Heute18:20 - 20:15115 min. Kinowelt TV16:9USA1998KrimikomödieWollten Sie schon immer wissen, wie eine Bowlingkugel die Welt sieht? Mögen Sie Walgesänge und durchgeknallte Typen?
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2 months ago |
forbes.com | John C. Goodman
Republicans are in a bind. In order to give substance to their new budget bill, they need to cut Medicaid spending by billions of dollars. Yet the White House and many congressional Republicans insist that they do not want to cut Medicaid benefits. Here is where DOGE can come to the rescue. In mainstream economics there is a technical definition of “waste.” A system is wasteful if it is possible to make a change that can in principle make everyone better off.
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Feb 3, 2025 |
forbes.com | John C. Goodman
In economics, the word “waste” has a very precise meaning. It’s not in the eyes of the beholder. Instead, waste exists if there is a change that in principle could make everyone better off. Here is why that matters. On the one hand, Elon Musk has been given a goal of reducing government waste by the Trump administration. On the other hand, congressional Republicans are desperate to find ways to cut spending in order to pay for a high-priority tax bill.
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Jan 24, 2025 |
forbes.com | John C. Goodman
The critics say it can’t be done. No sooner had Donald Trump asked Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy to lead a Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), the critics pounced. If you don’t touch Social Security, Medicare, and other entitlements, there is not much left, they claimed. And if you try to cut waste out of discretionary programs, you will hurt the people who depend on them. Here is what the critics are missing. There is a great deal of waste in our entitlement programs.
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The last election has provoked much soul searching and introspection on the left. Surprisingly, voters who were supposed to vote for left wing candidates voted for their opponents instead. Here is the problem. From Paul Krugman to Matt Yglesias, there is an unquestioned belief