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The left will tell you we need more government involvement in healthcare. What they don’t realize is that increased regulation and government involvement are exactly what caused healthcare costs to rise dramatically over the past 30 years. There are several reasons why government-run healthcare is a disaster. Economist explain how the government subsidized third party payer system separates consumers from prices and how such a system kills competition. But there is an even more immediate effect– the booming costs of administering a system of complex regulations. Government healthcare necessitates armies of bureaucrats. Take Medicare, for instance: not only does every...

Yesterday I was sent a chart by a Liberty Juice reader whose wife is the Administrator for a 66 doctor practice in Florida and says the chart is circulating around their practice. I was horrified upon viewing it and wondered if this could possibly be real. However, this morning I discovered that Congressman Kevin Brady also made a press release available today with the exact same chart, this time with equally horrifying information to accompany it. The chart was developed by the Joint Economic Committee and the press release states: “For Americans, as well as Congressional Democrats who didn’t bother...