Goodman Institute

04/22/2026

An Alternative To High Deductibles -

Next year, the out-of-pocket exposure for someone who buys insurance on the (Obamacare) exchange will be $12,000. It will be $24,000 for a family. If they have chronic health problems, families can face those costs every year. Congressman Pete Sessions and John Goodman offer a better alternative. Gi...

03/24/2026

Medicare Advantage is Saving Taxpayers Money -

Writing in the Wall Street Journal, John Goodman says the Editors got it right and the economists at AEI and Brookings (along with MedPAC) got it wrong. The Medicare Advantage program is saving the government money. Read Medicare Advantage Saves Taxpayers Dollars

03/18/2026

The Morality of Taxation -

In contrast to a moral approach to taxation, some argue for an immoral, or at least amoral, approach. The most prominent among them is former New York Times columnist Paul Krugman. His approach to taxation of the rich is the same approach a petty thief would take to garden-variety robbery: grab wh...

03/02/2026

Obamacare Impasse in Congress -

One reason why the two parties can’t reach some sort of compromise is that neither party has been willing to tackle the three biggest problems that afflict the market the Affordable Care Act created. On the buyer side, we have been trying to force people to buy insurance they would never buy with ...

02/27/2026

Goodman on Health Policy -

02/24/2026

Meaning Of The Declaration -

The Declaration of Independence was made possible because of two changes: A change in the way people thought and a change in the way they earned a living. With the Enlightenment came the idea that individuals are independent moral entities who should deal with each other on the basis of reason, pers...

02/18/2026

Ed Crane, RIP -

When the Cato Institute moved from San Francisco to Washington DC in 1981, I worried. When think tank people get close to politicians, all too often it’s the think tanks, not the politicians, who change the way they think. That was never true of Ed Crane’s libertarian Cato Institute, however. My...

02/04/2026

What Trump Gets Right About TrumpRx -

Writing in the Wall Street Journal, John Goodman says that Trump’s push for direct-to-consumer drug sales is a reform that is long overdue.

01/25/2026

What We Should Be Eating -

To our knowledge, the Goodman Institute is the only public policy think tank that has called for the complete inversion of the Food Pyramid, and we first did it under the Biden administration. In his latest post, John Goodman reviews the food wars – going back more than 160 years – and concludes...

01/17/2026

Trump's Health Reform -

Pete Sessions and John Goodman give details on how Trump’s approach to health reform might work. People would be able to buy insurance that meets their needs. If a medical need arises that is not covered by their chosen plan but is covered by Obamacare plans, people would be able to switch to a si...

01/14/2026

Goodman on PBS -

01/05/2026

How “Woke” Thinking Leads to Antisemitism -

Where you find the most woke thinking in America, you also find the most vocal and visible display of antisemitism – especially on college campuses. What makes woke "woke" is the tendency to pick out a single characteristic (such as skin color) and make that the defining characteristic of everyo...