Goodman Institute

12/12/2025

Resolving the Health Policy Impasse in Congress, Part III -

Rule 3: Eliminate public policies that give people perverse incentives to raise costs and reduce quality. One of the reasons the health care system fails to produce high-quality, low-cost care is that it is in no one’s interest to do that. To the contrary, perverse incentives encourage us to do th...

12/08/2025

Resolving the Health Policy Impasse in Congress -

Whenever there is head-to-head competition to meet the same needs, markets routinely outperform government. For that reason, in Part I and Part II John Goodman argues that we should rely on the private marketplace to meet all the health care and health insurance needs it can meet. The role of govern...

11/11/2025

The Case For Medicare Advantage -

A lot of doctors and some conservatives don’t like Medicare Advantage. And there are definitely some bad actors. However, this is the only place in the health care system where we could see the emergence of market-based developments that right-of-center folks like. But before we can institute free...

10/27/2025

Why Can’t the Democrats “Find Themselves”? -

Democrats like to think of themselves as the creators and protectors of social insurance. Yet, there are two things to know about the safety net.

10/18/2025

How to Reopen the Government -

1. Codify the Trump 1 regulations for the short-term health insurance market. 2. Let people who buy into that market have one-half the tax credit Obamacare offers. 3. Let employers buy their employees into that market. 4. Continue the (Obamacare) enhanced subsidies for one year. 5. During that ...

10/14/2025

New York Times Discovers Social Security Clawbacks -

Social Security now admits it recently sent out two million “clawback letters,” claiming beneficiaries were overpaid and demanding the government’s money back. The amounts may reach several hundred thousand dollars, the overpayment may go back decades, and in virtually every case the governmen...

10/07/2025

Losing Medicaid Is Not As Bad As You Think

09/30/2025

Reform Obamacare; Don’t Spend More Money On It -

The main reason Democrats in Congress are willing to shut down the government is health care.  Both parties are missing an opportunity here. Obamacare insurance desperately needs reforming. Smart reforms would make the insurance better for those who have it and save taxpayers money at the same time...

09/24/2025

We Need More Drug Ads, Not Fewer -

I agree with FDA Commissioner Marty Makary on most things. But he’s wrong about drug ads.  Studies show that drugs are our most cost-effective form of therapy – with returns far better than doctor therapy or hospital therapy. And, while we are experiencing an epidemic of chronic illness, only ...

09/09/2025

Democrats' Dilemma (Corrected Link) -

(This email was resent due to an error in the previous emails' link below) The Democratic Party is having an identity crisis. John Goodman’s theory: The crisis arises because the way most Democrats talk about and think about their party is completely different from how the party actually functions...

08/11/2025

Democrats' Dilemma -

The Democratic Party is having an identity crisis. John Goodman’s theory: The crisis arises because the way most Democrats talk about and think about their party is completely different from how the party actually functions. In a democracy politicians have an incentive to take from Peter and give ...

08/07/2025

Getting History Right - Part 2 -

Phil Gramm and Donald J. Boudreaux savagely dismantle myths about our economic history—myths that are routinely taught in high schools and colleges across the country. Included: The birth of capitalism in England and in America and the progressive era.