John C. Goodman is president and CEO of the National Center for Policy Analysis, research fellow at The Independent Institute, and author of the forthcoming book, Priceless: Curing the Healthcare Crisis. The Wall Street Journal and National Journal, among other media, have called him the "Father of Health Savings Accounts." He is also the Kellye Wright Fellow in health care. The mission of the Wright Fellowship is to promote a more patient-centered, consumer-driven health care system. http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JohnCGoodman http://media.townhall.com/TownHall/icons/TH-feed-icon-128x128.gif http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JohnCGoodman TownHall.com, Where your opinion counts. 128 Copyright (c) 2013 Townhall.com, A Salem Communications Web. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED jim.dearras@townhall.com (Jim De Arras) Sat, 11 May 2013 04:01:00 GMT Sat, 11 May 2013 04:01:00 GMT http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss RSS.NET: http://www.rssdotnet.com/ Something is wrong in the hospital marketplace. Government data released this week show that some hospitals in Dallas charge five times as much as other hospitals for the same procedures! This follows on the heels of... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JohnCGoodman/2013/05/11/health-care-that-is-priceless-n1592704 bd014823-315d-44d3-8510-79f7bfeefa9f Sat, 11 May 2013 04:01:00 GMT Within the White House, within the Democratic chambers in Congress and among the (overwhelmingly liberal) health policy community there was considerable anguish this week. The reason: a new study finds that (as far as... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JohnCGoodman/2013/05/04/study-devastating-for-obamacare-backers-n1586429 7793a69b-575a-42fa-b0ba-be66c0db9416 Sat, 04 May 2013 04:01:00 GMT If you ever doubted the inability of the federal government to protect you from harm, events of the past few weeks should have been a clincher. While Congress was dithering about a background-check-for-gun-buyers... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JohnCGoodman/2013/04/27/guns-bombs-and-government-n1580052 801dfbbf-0080-416e-8fd9-3f14ac6e6e8b Sat, 27 Apr 2013 04:01:00 GMT The best way to understand the Affordable Care Act (ObamaCare) is to realize that it confers large benefits on some people and imposes large costs on others. If you are one of the ones who will qualify for expanded... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JohnCGoodman/2013/04/20/why-obamacare-may-cost-you-your-job-n1573067 79b60d44-022b-4e5f-b887-a60844264639 Sat, 20 Apr 2013 04:01:00 GMT In Britain they are mourning the death of Margaret Thatcher. They are also celebrating. Celebrating? Yes, celebrating. "Ding Dong the Witch is Gone," reads one sign. "I Still Hate Thatcher," reads another. Then there... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JohnCGoodman/2013/04/13/thatchers-enemies-n1566149 0f2d14e5-4c5b-49d8-819f-7553c43ef32e Sat, 13 Apr 2013 04:01:00 GMT One of the worst features of the American health care system is the sorry state of medical malpractice law. Fewer than 2 percent of injured patients ever file a lawsuit. Of those that do, only one in 15 receives... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JohnCGoodman/2013/04/06/malpractice-law-is-bad-for-your-health-n1559158 06814509-548d-49c3-a5ff-43fe5a7de054 Sat, 06 Apr 2013 04:01:00 GMT Over the next 10 years health reform will impose upon us about $1 trillion in new taxes and it will take another $716 billion out of Medicare, imperiling access to care for the elderly and the disabled according to... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JohnCGoodman/2013/03/30/report-card-on-obamacare-n1552872 a6ce54f6-7e9c-4867-86b6-8851f5df3000 Sat, 30 Mar 2013 04:01:00 GMT The labor market is one of the most regulated markets in our economy. Minimum wage laws effectively tell teenagers they cannot work unless they can produce $7.25 an hour. When the ObamaCare mandate kicks in next... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JohnCGoodman/2013/03/23/free-the-workers-n1546548 e789aa66-b962-478a-b197-72992eb1e373 Sat, 23 Mar 2013 04:01:00 GMT It's hard to believe almost any budget numbers coming out of Washington, D.C., these days. The reason? The Obama administration is cooking the books. Okay, it's not actually violating any law. But perhaps it should... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JohnCGoodman/2013/03/16/bait-and-switch-n1535733 5849ed7d-5ba1-4f80-b4e0-5c12501738ca Sat, 16 Mar 2013 04:01:00 GMT Firms are awash with cash, but they're not hiring. What's going on? One place to look for an explanation is the policies of the Obama administration. President Obama's proposal to increase the minimum wage and the... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JohnCGoodman/2013/03/09/what-obama-is-doing-to-the-job-market-n1529288 5717c9ad-4683-4161-a493-71f87a9d35bc Sat, 09 Mar 2013 05:01:00 GMT The Democratic Party has two reliable groups of adherents: the rich and the poor. Not all of the rich, of course. Not all of the poor, either. But a large swath of wealthy people, especially those whose wealth was... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JohnCGoodman/2013/03/02/how-liberals-live-n1524042 fe8da417-8f0c-4a15-a214-b1f862ff6750 Sat, 02 Mar 2013 05:01:00 GMT President Obama is said to have made the case for a liberal public policy agenda in his State of the Union speech the other night. But what is liberalism? The conventional view is that liberalism is an ideology. In... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JohnCGoodman/2013/02/23/what-is-liberalism-n1518389 d3a401a0-50bf-4b6c-ada8-378a6dd1210e Sat, 23 Feb 2013 05:01:00 GMT People who have been around for a while all seem to agree. Never in living memory has the atmosphere on Capitol Hill and in Washington, D.C., generally been so toxic. I don't find this to be true out in the... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JohnCGoodman/2013/02/16/why-is-washington-so-polarized-n1513604 086b3bcc-5662-4f8c-9eee-ec3307666dd7 Sat, 16 Feb 2013 05:01:00 GMT There was a time, not long ago, when both Republicans and Democrats agreed that something had to be done about entitlement spending - especially spending on the elderly. But no longer. . Although he promised in his... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JohnCGoodman/2013/02/09/denial-n1508392 f53ce247-da25-4fa0-933e-88270199f2fa Sat, 09 Feb 2013 05:01:00 GMT The Republican Party is in danger of another big loss. This time, they could lose the House of Representatives, giving the Democrats control of both chambers as well as the White House. The Democratic Party cannot... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JohnCGoodman/2013/02/02/how-the-republicans-could-lose-the-house-n1503322 6a04a3f5-23cf-4865-ac84-debcc251d71c Sat, 02 Feb 2013 05:01:00 GMT