Bold, crucial, and deeply caring solutions to America’s ongoing healthcare fiasco including, for this edition, the failed promises of Obamacare. Healthcare is complex, but this book isn’t. It’s clear, satisfying, and refreshingly human. Pre-order your copy of Priceless: Curing the Healthcare Crisis on Amazon now. Link in comments to order!
Independent Institute
Think Tanks
Oakland, CA 3,599 followers
Boldly advancing peaceful, prosperous, and free societies grounded in a commitment to human worth and dignity.
About us
The Independent Institute is a non-profit, non-partisan, public-policy research and educational organization that shapes ideas into profound and lasting impact through publications, conferences, and effective multi-media programs. Our mission is to boldly advance peaceful, prosperous, and free societies grounded in a commitment to human worth and dignity.
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http://independent.org
External link for Independent Institute
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- Think Tanks
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- 11-50 employees
- Headquarters
- Oakland, CA
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- Nonprofit
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- 1986
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- Government & Politics, Public Policy , Research, Education, Free Markets, Economics, Health Care, and Energy & Environment
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Oakland, CA 94621, US
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1319 18th St. NW
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Employees at Independent Institute
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Roy M Carlisle
Acquisitions Director, The Independent Institute
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Ivan Eland
FOREIGN POLICY | NATIONAL SECURITY |PRESIDENTIAL POWER | CIVIL LIBERTIES | AWARD WINNING AUTHOR OF EIGHT BOOKS | OP-EDS MAJOR PUBLICATIONS |…
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Art Carden
Margaret Gage Bush Distinguished Professor of Economics
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Ron Kimberling
Higher Education Consultant
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Knut Wicksell’s underappreciated contributions to economics spanned productivity theory, monetary economics, and public economics. Across all of his contributions, he faithfully applied the principle of value and countervalue—the equimarginal principle—which was inspired by his belief that a system based on this principle would produce economically just outcomes in the sense that “each man received his money’s worth.” https://buff.ly/3W12mlt
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50 years ago, Richard Nixon, considered one of America's worst presidents, resigned. Read the chapter on Nixon in Ivan Eland's book, "Recarving Rushmore: Ranking the Presidents on Peace, Prosperity, and Liberty". 🔗: https://buff.ly/4cmMhLT
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In a unanimous decision last month, California’s Supreme Court upheld Proposition 22, allowing workers for Uber and Lyft to work as independent contractors. This fallout from Assembly Bill 5 affected over 1M freelancers, harming efforts against COVID-19 in rural areas. AB 5 forces workers into unions, going against their best interests. The upholding of Prop 22 is a relief, but AB 5 needs dismantling. Politicians should let the free market thrive for the state to prosper. 🔗 Link in comments to read more.
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VP candidate J.D. Vance criticized for advice to American women and his isolationist views. Ignoring America’s immigrant history shows ignorance. America thrives on its melting pot heritage.
The United States Has Always Been a Melting Pot
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European leaders fear that replacing Biden with Harris could weaken U.S. support for Europe. Biden is a strong trans-Atlanticist, but the U.S. public is wary of the ongoing costs of backing Ukraine. Harris or Trump might not be "all in" on funding the war.
In 2024, the Party Is Over for European Free-Riding on Defense | Ivan Eland
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Economics education needs a reboot. Doctoral programs turn out mathematicians, not economists. Undergrad courses focus on market failure and inequality over economic reasoning. Rethink the core texts: start with "Universal Economics" by Alchian and Allen.
To Fix Economics, Try Teaching Economics | Alexander William Salter
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In this long-awaited updated edition of his groundbreaking work Priceless: Curing the Healthcare Crisis, renowned healthcare economist John Goodman (“father” of Health Savings Accounts) analyzes America’s ongoing healthcare fiasco—including, for this edition, the failed promises of Obamacare. Goodman then provides what many critics of our healthcare system neglect: solutions. And not a moment too soon. Americans are entangled in a system with perverse incentives that raise costs, reduce quality, and make care less accessible. It’s not just patients that need liberation from this labyrinth of confusion—it’s doctors, businessmen, and institutions as well. Read this new work and discover: 🍏 Why no one sees a real price for anything: no patient, no doctor, no employer, no employee 🍏 How Obamacare’s perverse incentives cause insurance companies to seek to attract the healthy and avoid the sick 🍏 Why having a preexisting condition is actually WORSE under Obamacare than it was before—despite rosy political promises to the contrary 🍏 Why emergency-room traffic and long waits for care have actually increased under Obamacare 🍏 How Medicaid expansion spends new money insuring healthy, single adults, while doing nothing for the developmentally disabled who languish on waiting lists and children who aren’t getting the pediatric care they need 🍏 How the market for medical care COULD be as efficient and consumer-friendly as the market for cell phone repair... and what it would take to make that happen 🍏 How to create centers of medical excellence, which compete to meet the needs of the chronically ill 🍏 And much, much more ... Thoroughly researched, clearly written, and decidedly humane in its concern for the health of all Americans, John Goodman has written the healthcare book to read to understand today’s healthcare crisis. His proposed solutions are bold, crucial, and most importantly, caring. Healthcare is complex. But this book isn’t. It’s clear, it’s satisfying, and it’s refreshingly human. If you read even one book about healthcare policy in America, this is the one to read. Pre-order your copy of “Priceless: Curing the Healthcare Crisis” on Amazon now. https://buff.ly/3Ww4NeX
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