Overview

The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act—a.k.a. Obamacare—remains highly controversial and faces ongoing legal and political challenges. Polls show that by a large margin Americans remain opposed to the healthcare law and seek to “repeal and replace” it. However, the question is: Replace it with what?

In A Better Choice, John C. Goodman clearly and concisely provides the compelling answer—no small feat, considering the complexity and intransigence of problems that have long plagued American healthcare. His prescription of four key reforms may garner the greatest attention as policymakers and the public search for a way out of the healthcare quagmire. For anyone who wants to learn about some of the boldest prescriptions designed to remedy our healthcare system, Goodman’s book is a must-read.

Contents

1. Introduction

Part I: Problems and Principles

2. Six Major Problems of the Affordable Care Act (ACA)
3. Six Principles for Commonsense Reform

Part II: Taking a Closer Look at the Principles

4. Understanding Choice
5. Understanding Fairness
6. Understanding Universal Coverage
7. Understanding Portability
8. Understanding Patient Power
9. Understanding Real Insurance

Part III: Curing the Healthcare Crisis

10. Can the ACA Be Fixed?
11. The Case for a Fixed-Sum Tax Credit
12. Why I Am More Egalitarian on Healthcare Than Most Liberals

Notes
Index
About the Author

Detailed Summary

• The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) has imposed large costs and produced very few gains. Millions have lost their health plans, despite President Barack Obama’s promise that they could keep them. Employers have been discouraged from hiring full-time workers, and businesses with fewer than 50 workers are penalized if they grow. Even the promise of “affordable” healthcare ultimately rings false, because the law requires most households to buy coverage whose cost is likely to grow much faster than their incomes. 

• Obamacare’s loopholes for big businesses may leave their low-income workers worse off than before the employer mandate. Large firms that self-insure are exempt from covering hospitalizations, specialist services, CT and MRI scans, mental health, and other services. Moreover, if workers and their families decline more generous coverage at exorbitant premiums, they are not eligible to receive subsidized insurance in an online exchange.
• “Repeal and replace”—but with what? Returning to a pre-Obamacare health system would be a mistake. The cure needed today should both undo the damage done by Obamacare and overhaul earlier laws that limited consumer choices, penalized coverage obtained in the individual market, and discouraged insurance-industry innovations to deal with pre-existing conditions and other legitimate problems.
• People should be free to choose a health plan that fits individual family needs, rather than pushed into one designed by bureaucrats in Washington. This means no mandates. Had we left people free to choose in designing health reform, millions of policyholders in the individual market would have been spared the shock and hassle of losing plans they were promised they could keep, and millions more with coverage through their employer would have been spared the fear of losing their plans.
• Health Savings Accounts (HSAs) discourage wasteful spending and help control costs, but they would be even more effective if there were fewer restrictions. Giving HSAs 
the flexibility to wrap around any third-party insurance plan would enable the market to determine the appropriate allocation between third-party insurance and individual self-insurance in the form of a savings account. 

• Arcane tax laws and rigid regulations should be scrapped to allow employers and insurers to meet the needs of modern families. Long-standing laws prevent employers from offering their workers coverage that is portable in the same way that 401(k) plans and employer-paid life insurance are portable. Laws prevent the private sector from creating special accounts that enable the chronically ill to manage their own healthcare dollars 
(e.g., accounts similar to Medicaid’s highly successful Cash and Counseling program). Laws discourage insurers from developing coverage for changes in health status, even 
though such provisions would eliminate the financial hardship associated with developing a preexisting condition. 

• How should the government encourage people to buy private health insurance? Offering a fixed-sum tax credit for its purchase (in place of tax exemptions for employer-provided insurance and tax deductions for the self-employed and for Obamacare subsidies in the exchanges) would eliminate the perverse incentives in the current system and allow people to make their own choices between health insurance and other goods and services without financial penalty.

Despite having surmounted numerous obstacles, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA)—a.k.a. “Obamacare”—remains highly controversial and faces ongoing legal and political challenges. The law’s staunchest critics are saying “repeal and replace.” Even its supporters acknowledge that serious changes are needed. The question is: replace it with what?

In A Better Choice: Healthcare Solutions for America, economist and Independent Institute Senior Fellow John C. Goodman answers the question clearly and concisely. For anyone who wants to better understand Obamacare’s most serious problems and learn about some of the boldest prescriptions designed to remedy them, Goodman’s book is a must-read.

Problems and Principles

The Affordable Care Act creates numerous problems, but six are especially troubling, Goodman explains in Part I.

• It imposes an impossible mandate. The ACA requires Americans to buy a package of benefits whose cost is likely to grow faster than our incomes. That means healthcare will crowd out of the family budget more and more of other goods and services we need and want to buy. Because of an inflexible mandate, people’s ability to get off of this impossible path is greatly limited.
  
  
• It makes promises that aren’t paid for. Although the healthcare law requires us to purchase health insurance whose costs are likely to grow faster than our incomes, the subsidies provided by the government are capped and will grow at a much slower rate.
  
  
• It promises what it cannot deliver. Obamacare was supposed to insure 26 million previously uninsured people, but the supply of medical personnel cannot come anywhere close to meeting such a demand.
  
  
• Its subsidies and mandates act to destabilize entire sectors of the economy. Depending on their size, employers will face pressure to curtail hiring, rely more on part-time employees, and outsource jobs to non-employee labor. Because most workers who earn less than the average wage will be better off getting insurance in the exchange, and most who earn more than the average wage will be better off getting insurance at work, entire industries will be encouraged to reorganize in response to these incentives.
  
  
• It creates perverse incentives that threaten the quality of care. By prohibiting insurers from charging premiums that reflect a consumer’s health status, Obamacare requires them to overcharge the healthy and undercharge the sick. This creates pressures for insurers to try to attract the healthy and to avoid the sick. After enrollment, their incentive is to over-provide to the healthy and under-provide to the sick.
  
  
• Its weakly enforced mandate will undermine the health insurance marketplace. The lack of real penalties for remaining uninsured are encouraging the healthy to wait to enroll until they get sick. This creates the risk of a “death spiral,” whereby the pool of insured becomes increasingly small, unhealthy, and expensive to ensure.

These six problems could have been avoided had the architects of healthcare reform adopted six commonsense principles. They are: choice, fairness, universal coverage, portability, patient power, and real insurance.

“What would it cost to create an alternative to the ACA based on these six principles?” Goodman asks. “I believe that if we take all of the current subsidies for employer-provided insurance and add all of the subsidies the ACA is providing, there is more than enough money for the reforms I recommend.”

A Closer Look at the Principles

In Part II, Goodman elaborates on these principles by drawing on his awarding-winning, 2012, Independent Institute book, Priceless: Curing the Healthcare Crisis.

Understanding choice. Under the ACA, the health insurance benefits you must buy are determined by the government’s needs and the needs of the special interests that helped shape the health-reform law. The alternative is to let people chose the package of benefits that meet their own individual and family needs.

Understanding fairness. Most of the uninsured lack access to employer-provided health insurance purchased with pre-tax dollars. If they obtain insurance at all (and if they don’t qualify for the Obamacare tax credit), they must buy coverage with after-tax dollars, which effectively doubles the after-tax price for middle-income families. On the other hand, if they do qualify for a tax credit on the new health-insurance exchange, their subsidy may be many times greater than the tax subsidy enjoyed by people at the same income level who get coverage at work.

This unfairness could be eliminated by giving people who obtain health insurance the same tax relief whether they obtain coverage at work, in the marketplace, or in an exchange.

Understanding universal coverage. If ensuring that everyone has coverage is a worthy goal, one solution is to offer a uniform, fixed-dollar tax credit for health insurance. The credit would be refundable (even those who don’t have a federal tax liability could claim it). It would be generous enough to allow people to purchase Medicaid-like insurance, and any unclaimed tax subsidies would be sent to safety-net institutions that serve the uninsured.

Understanding portability. Lack of portability of employer-based insurance is one of the biggest problems with the U.S. healthcare system. Even coverage obtained in the Obamacare exchanges is generally not portable: People lose their eligibility for health plans purchased in an exchange (or lose their eligibility for tax-subsidized coverage) if they become eligible for Medicaid or accept a job with an employer that offers minimum essential coverage at an affordable price.

The alternative is to allow employers to do what Obamacare now forbids them to do: buy insurance that the employees own and can take with them from job to job and in and out of the labor market. By promoting long-lasting relationships between patients and healthcare providers, insurance portability would strengthen continuity of care. Also, portability is more compatible with a dynamic economy that requires job mobility.

Understanding patient power. Healthcare decisions are generally more successful when patients directly control their own health dollars and can weigh the tradeoffs between health care and other uses of money. A famous study by the RAND Corporation in the 1980s, for example, found that consumers with relatively high deductibles of around $2,500 (in today’s prices) consumed 30 percent less healthcare than those with no out- of-pocket costs, but their reduced consumption of care had no adverse health effects. Patients became more cost conscious, but they did not do things that were harmful to their health.

Understanding real insurance. Instead of trying to force insurers to take enrollees they don’t want, in a real insurance market the insurer would receive a premium that reflects the enrollee’s expected actuarial cost. That would allow insurers to compete on a level playing field for the sick and the healthy—much as they currently do in the Medicare Advantage program. What some people call “change-of-health-status insurance” would allow people to insure against the costs of developing a preexisting condition.

Curing the Healthcare Crisis

In Part III, Goodman proposes numerous recommendations to bring greater affordability, access, and quality to the U.S. healthcare system. Four reforms would be especially helpful. Although they wouldn’t correct every problem Obamacare creates, they would go a long way toward eliminating them by harmoniously aligning the incentives of patients, healthcare providers, and insurers. They consist of the following:

• Replacing all the Obamacare mandates and subsidies with a universal tax credit that is the same for everyone—preferably worth $2,500 for an adult and $8,000 for a family of four.
  
  
• Replacing all the different types of medical savings accounts with a Roth Health Savings Account (i.e., after-tax deposits and tax-free withdrawals).
  
  
• Allowing Medicaid to compete with private insurance, with everyone having the right to buy in or get out.
  
  
• Denationalizing and deregulating the ex- changes and requiring them to institute change-of-health-status insurance.

Together these four reforms would bypass the technical hurdles of the online exchanges, prevent perverse outcomes in the labor market, stop the exchanges’ “race to the bottom” (by adopting ever narrower networks), reduce the financial burden of high deductibles, and provide real protection for pre-existing conditions.

Understanding the case for a fixed-sum tax credit is especially important because lawmakers have introduced several bills offering flawed provisions for tax credits. Goodman illustrates the advantages of his approach by comparing it with proposals offered by Sen. John McCain during his 2008 presidential bid, a bill authored by Sen. Tom Coburn and Rep. Paul Ryan, and other proposals.

In his visionary final chapter, “Why I Am More Egalitarian on Healthcare Than Most Liberals,” Goodman describes how lifting various government controls in health-insurance markets would empower the least fortunate members of society.

“The result,” writes Goodman, “would be a healthcare system that would be unquestionably more equitable than what you see in either Britain or Canada and a lot more equitable than what we will experience under the Affordable Care Act.”

Praise

“Nancy Pelosi famously told us that we could find out what was in the Affordable Care Act once it passed. It is now five years later, and thanks to its convoluted concepts and its thousands of pages of rules and regulations few have wended their way through the ACA, and still fewer understand what it all means. Fortunately John Goodman, an expert on the American health system and a perceptive analyst, has studied the Act and has written the insightful book A Better Choice, that reveals what is in the ACA, what is wrong with it, and what could and should be done to provide cost-effective healthcare to our citizens. The ACA starts from the premise that the federal government knows best when it comes to the provision of healthcare. John Goodman shows the pitfalls of this premise and how the market can be harnessed to align consumer choice and provider incentives to more effectively resolve the issues of resource use and financing of healthcare. Markets are particularly important for the U.S. which has a huge and highly heterogeneous population—317 million people (third largest in the world).”
—June E. O’Neill, Wollman Distinguished Professor of Economics and Director of the Center for the Study of Business and Government, Baruch College; former Director, Congressional Budget Office

“John Goodman understands the real life effects of the Affordable Care Act and the proposed alternatives. John also writes extremely well, making complicated concepts clear. All this makes A Better Choice a highly recommended read for those who wish to understand the current health policy debate.”
—Bill Cassidy, M.D., U.S. Senator

“John Goodman has written a clear and compelling analysis of America’s health care morass. Anyone who wants to understand what the politicians and policy wonks are arguing about should turn to A Better Choice. Liberals and conservatives should both read this book to understand why Obamacare does not work as it was supposed to. Everyone should read this book to learn what the solution is.”
—Joseph R. Antos, Wilson H. Taylor Scholar in Health Care and Retirement Policy, American Enterprise Institute

“In A Better Choice, John Goodman has written an eye-opening analysis of the many problems with Obamacare and has proposed common-sense solutions.”
—Pete Sessions, Chairman, Committee on Rules, U.S. House of Representatives

“Our health care system continues to face higher costs, more mandates, and complicated rules, even as the needs of the consumer are constantly changing. America needs new and innovative approaches—‘solutions’—to chart a better course on care. Dr. Goodman has proved himself an innovator, and with his book A Better Choice, he continues to challenge policymakers with thoughtful, market-based approaches toward health care.”
—John M. Engler, former Governor of Michigan; President and CEO, Business Roundtable

“John Goodman has been one of the most important health economists in the country. He has been an informed and prescient critic of the current health system, and his forecasts of the failings of Obamacare have been exactly on target. He has also been a leader in proposing workable alternatives, and his health savings account plan has been a success whenever it has been used. In A Better Choice he continues his important work. He first shows in detail what is wrong with Obamacare. But he does not stop there: he provides the important alternative, fixed-sum tax credits, that could and should replace all other health subsidies, including the subsidy for employer provided health insurance. He shows how this plan could greatly improve the efficiency of our health care system and also lead to increased health care for the disadvantaged. This is a serious book and one the new Congress should examine very carefully.”
—Paul H. Rubin, Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Economics, Emory University

“A Better Choice is an intriguing book that combines John Goodman’s most sensible proposals all in one place. It directly addresses the litany of the issues we face with the two sides on the how to deal with these issues. On the one hand it contrasts the ACA vision with the reality. On the other hand it outlines how simple a real solution might be.”
—Thomas R. Saving, Jeff Montgomery Professor of Economics and Director of Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A & M University

“In A Better Choice, John Goodman has worked a miracle. He has distilled the essence of a plan to improve the limping and vulnerable Obamacare program into four points (read the book to find out), which improve opportunities for choice, improve efficiency in that choice, and expand the set of people likely to end up with health insurance coverage. Not that everyone, on either left or right, will agree with all of the particulars of each point or their suggested implementation—but the book does provide a fresh starting point, an alternative narrative, that is virtually guaranteed to get us to a better place than we are at present.”
—Mark V. Pauly, Bendheim Professor, Professor of Health Care Management, and Professor of Business and Public Policy Wharton School; University of Pennsylvania; former Commissioner, Physician Payment Review Commission

“Regardless of whether the Affordable Care Act (ACA) has any merit in theory, its practical realities point toward a death spiral as it will likely collapse under its own weight, for all the reasons John Goodman lucidly recounts in A Better Choice. Goodman offers a thoughtful, thought-provoking alternative to the ACA (Obamacare) and the enormous harms it would cause, to which everyone, especially all those who favor free markets and limited government, should pay very close attention.”
—E. Haavi Morreim, Professor, College of Medicine, University of Tennessee Health Science Center

“One good thing that has come out of the Affordable Care Act is that it has produced serious debate about how to fix the American healthcare system. An excellent place for readers interested in this question to start would be John C. Goodman’s A Better Choice, which zeroes in on the many problems with the ACA and proposes workable, market-based alternatives.”
—Joel M. Zinberg, M.D., J.D., F.A.C.S., Associate Clinical Professor, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai Hospital; Visiting Scholar, American Enterprise Institute

“John Goodman achieves something most writers only dream of. His strongest adversaries openly endorse his books as ‘must-reads.’ In a politically charged atmosphere, his book Priceless won praise from across the political spectrum. Now, A Better Choice offers serious ideas for pulling American healthcare out of its current morass. You don't have to agree with all or even with most of Goodman’s ideas to find A Better Choice indispensable.”
—Robert F. Graboyes, Senior Research Fellow, Mercatus Center, George Mason University

“After half a decade of turmoil generated by the Affordable Care Act in a three trillion dollar healthcare economy, John Goodman’s A Better Choice succinctly diagnoses the problems and lays out a practical treatment plan. His six principles of health reform transcend the poisoned and dishonesty of late and offer the proper terms for a real solution. As politicians search to find remedies before the health economy is too damaged to alter course, they will be well served reading and acting on the policy prescriptions in A Better Choice.”
—Stephen T. Parente, Minnesota Insurance Industry Chair of Health Finance, Associate Dean of MBA Programs, and Director of the Medical Industry Leadership Institute; Carlson School of Management; University of Minnesota

“The Affordable Care Act signed into law by President Obama abruptly altered the pathway of healthcare in the U.S. Contrary to the desire of most Americans, this government centralization was undertaken without understanding, or perhaps even in spite of, the deleterious impact it would have on medical care access, quality, and cost, and without regard for its broader harms to employment and future healthcare innovation. In A Better Choice, John Goodman articulates the important problems with Obamacare in clear language, laying out the core impacts of the law for all those interested in truly understanding the issues. He then details how to transition to a healthcare system that provides access to all while maintaining the high quality of what is factually the world’s best medical care. I highly recommend the book to all those interested in the future of America’s health care.”
—Scott W. Atlas, David and Joan Traitel Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University

“As Obamacare continues to present us with more complications and disappointments, A Better Choice indeed offers in clear and compelling terms, a better choice for all Americans—one that strips away the bureaucratic controls and mandates, and allows consumers to take over their own healthcare decisions. John Goodman provides a devastating indictment of the current system, and supplies a clear roadmap toward a more certain and prosperous future.”
—Richard A. Epstein, Laurence A. Tisch Professor of Law, New York University

“If you think that the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA, also known as Obamacare) is bad because of its expense, the distortions it causes in the labor market, its failure to provide people what they really want, and its highly unequal treatment of people in similar situations, wait until you read John C. Goodman’s A Better Choice: Healthcare Solutions for America. You will likely conclude that the ACA is even worse than you thought. That’s the bad news. The good news is that Goodman, a health economist and senior fellow with the Independent Institute, proposes reforms that would do more for the uninsured than the ACA does, and at lower cost, and also would make things better for the currently insured. And it would do all this while avoiding mandates, creating more real competition among insurers, and making the health care sector more responsive to consumers. . . . Goodman is strongest on the issue on which he has always been strong: patient power. . . . Goodman points out that if patients were spending their own money, other parts of the health care system would respond by making things more consumer-friendly. Will we see any of the policy changes that Goodman proposes? Time will tell.”
—Regulation

News

“Lessons From the Clarence Thomas/Anita Hill Hearings” Sr. Fellow John C. Goodman, author of A Better Choice: Healthcare Solutions for America Op-Ed in Town Hall		Thu., Sep. 27, 2018
“Why is Anyone a Socialist?” Sr. Fellow John C. Goodman, author of A Better Choice: Healthcare Solutions for America Op-Ed in Townhall		Sun., Sep. 23, 2018
“Lower Cost, Higher Quality Health Care Is Right at Our Fingertips” Sr. Fellow John C. Goodman, author of A Better Choice Op-Ed in Forbes		Mon., Jul. 23, 2018
“Free the Labor Market” Sr. Fellow John C. Goodman, author of A Better Choice Op-Ed in Forbes		Wed., Jun. 20, 2018
“New Frontiers for Patient Power” Sr. Fellow John C. Goodman, author of A Better Choice Op-Ed in Forbes		Mon., Jun. 11, 2018
“The States Could Reform Obamacare If Only We Would Let Them” Sr. Fellow John C. Goodman, author of A Better Choice in Forbes		Tue., May. 29, 2018
“On Torture” Sr. Fellow John C. Goodman, author of A Better Choice Op-Ed on TownHall.com		Sat., May. 19, 2018
“Can the Republicans Replace Obamacare before the Next Election?” Sr. Fellow John C. Goodman, author of A Better Choice in Forbes		Tue., May. 15, 2018
“Can the Republicans Replace Obamacare Before the Next Election?” Sr. Fellow John C. Goodman, author of A Better Choice in Forbes		Tue., May. 15, 2018
“High-Deductible Health Insurance: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly” Sr. Fellow John C. Goodman, author of A Better Choice in Forbes		Fri., May. 11, 2018
“How Republicans Can Fix What Democrats Got Wrong on Health Care” Sr. Fellow John C. Goodman, author of A Better Choice Op-Ed in Forbes		Thu., Apr. 26, 2018
“The Trillion Dollar Surprise in the Budget Deal” Sr. Fellow John C. Goodman, author of A Better Choice in Forbes		Fri., Feb. 23, 2018
“Fake News on the Nunes Memo” Sr. Fellow John C. Goodman, author of A Better Choice Op-Ed in TownHall.com		Sat., Feb. 10, 2018
“What Republicans Don’t Understand About Health Insurance, Taxes and Children” Sr. Fellow John C. Goodman, author of A Better Choice in Forbes		Wed., Jan. 24, 2018
“Will Tax Reform Kill People?” Sr. Fellow John C. Goodman, author of A Better Choice and Linda Gorman Op-Ed in Forbes		Fri., Dec. 22, 2017
“It’s Time to Repeal Obamacare’s Individual Mandate” Sr. Fellow John C. Goodman, author of A Better Choice in Forbes		Mon., Nov. 20, 2017
Sr. Fellow John C. Goodman, author of A Better Choice appears on the Larry Kudlow radio show		Sat., Oct. 14, 2017
“Can Donald Trump Cut a Deal with Democrats on Health Care? Maybe.” Sr. Fellow John C. Goodman, author of A Better Choice in Forbes		Mon., Oct. 9, 2017
“Healthcare Bill Update” Sr. Fellow John C. Goodman, author of A Better Choice appears on the Fox Business Network		Fri., Sep. 22, 2017
“Republicans’ Last Chance on Repeal and Replace” Sr. Fellow John C. Goodman, author of A Better Choice appears on the Fox News Channel		Tue., Sep. 19, 2017
“Last Chance for Republicans to Repeal and Replace Obamacare” Sr. Fellow John C. Goodman, author of A Better Choice appears on the Fox Business Network		Tue., Sep. 19, 2017
“Ten Reasons Why Every State Should Welcome the Graham/Cassidy/Heller/Johnson Health Reform Bill” Sr. Fellow John C. Goodman, author of A Better Choice in Forbes		Mon., Sep. 18, 2017
“Save Us From the Health Care Reformers: They’re the Problem, Not the Solution” Sr. Fellow John C. Goodman, author of A Better Choice in Forbes		Tue., Sep. 5, 2017
“Hate on the Left” Sr. Fellow John C. Goodman, author of A Better Choice Op-Ed in Town Hall Magazine		Sat., Aug. 19, 2017
“How Donald Trump is Driving the Democrats Crazy” Sr. Fellow John C. Goodman, author of A Better Choice Op-Ed in TownHall.com		Sat., Aug. 12, 2017
“The Better Way Tax Plan” Sr. Fellow John C. Goodman, author of A Better Choice and Laurence Kotlikoff in Forbes		Thu., Aug. 10, 2017
“Are Republicans Too Stingy with Medicaid?” Sr. Fellow John C. Goodman, author of A Better Choice in Forbes		Wed., Aug. 2, 2017
“What Paul Krugman Doesn’t Understand about Health Economics” Sr. Fellow John C. Goodman, author of A Better Choice in Forbes		Tue., Jul. 25, 2017
“Why Republicans Can’t Pass a Health Care Bill” Sr. Fellow John C. Goodman, author of A Better Choice in Forbes		Wed., Jul. 19, 2017
“Why Single-Payer? And Why Now?” Sr. Fellow John C. Goodman, author of A Better Choice cited on AmericanThinker.com		Mon., Jul. 17, 2017
“Can Ted Cruz Save Republican Health Reform?” Sr. Fellow John C. Goodman, author of A Better Choice in Forbes		Fri., Jul. 14, 2017
“Republicans Are in a Health Care Trap. Here’s What They Can Do about It” Sr. Fellow John C. Goodman, author of A Better Choice in Forbes		Wed., Jul. 5, 2017
“How to Make Health Insurance Affordable and Attractive: Lessons for the Senate” Sr. Fellow John C. Goodman, author of A Better Choice in Forbes		Thu., Jun. 29, 2017
“What Democrats Can Teach Republicans about Health Reform” Sr. Fellow John C. Goodman, author of A Better Choice in Forbes		Tue., Jun. 27, 2017
“Senate Healthcare Bill CBO Score” Sr. Fellow John C. Goodman, author of A Better Choice appears on CNBC		Mon., Jun. 26, 2017
“Lessons from Georgia” Sr. Fellow John C. Goodman, author of A Better Choice in Forbes		Thu., Jun. 22, 2017
“Why Are We So Divided?” Sr. Fellow John C. Goodman, author of A Better Choice Op-Ed in TownHall.com		Sat., Jun. 17, 2017
“Do Conservatives Really Want To Repeal Obamacare?” Sr. Fellow John C. Goodman, author of A Better Choice in Forbes		Thu., Jun. 15, 2017
“Should Everyone Be Able to Join Medicaid? Why Not?” Sr. Fellow John C. Goodman, author of A Better Choice in Forbes		Wed., Jun. 7, 2017
“How Republicans Think About Health Care: Three Parallel Universes” Sr. Fellow John C. Goodman, author of A Better Choice in Forbes		Mon., Jun. 5, 2017
“Brownshirts, Subsidized with Your Tax Dollars” Sr. Fellow John C. Goodman, author of A Better Choice in TownHall.com		Mon., May. 22, 2017
“Individual Insurance Buyers Were Better Off Without Obamacare” Sr. Fellow John C. Goodman, author of A Better Choice Linda Gorman, and Beverly Gossage in Forbes		Thu., May. 18, 2017
“A New Approach to High Deductibles” Sr. Fellow John C. Goodman, author of A Better Choice in Forbes		Wed., May. 17, 2017
“To Replace Obamacare, Don’t Overlook the Role of the States” Sr. Fellow John C. Goodman, author of A Better Choice in Forbes		Mon., May. 15, 2017
“Does Lack of Health Insurance Kill?” Sr. Fellow John C. Goodman, author of A Better Choice and Linda Gorman Op-Ed in Forbes		Thu., May. 11, 2017
“Republicans Have Missed a Healthcare Opportunity” Sr. Fellow John C. Goodman, author of A Better Choice appears on CNBC (Part 1)		Thu., May. 4, 2017
“Hardly Anything Will Be Changed About Obamacare Structure” Sr. Fellow John C. Goodman, author of A Better Choice appears on CNBC (Part 2)		Thu., May. 4, 2017
“High Risk Pools Worked Just Fine Before Obamacare” Sr. Fellow John C. Goodman, author of A Better Choice and Linda Gorman in Forbes		Tue., May. 2, 2017
“Why Republicans Can’t Replace Obamacare” Sr. Fellow John C. Goodman, author of A Better Choice in Forbes		Mon., May. 1, 2017
“Getting the Ball Across the Finish Line” Sr. Fellow John C. Goodman, author of A Better Choice in Forbes		Fri., Apr. 21, 2017
“Obamacare Repeal Update” Sr. Fellow John C. Goodman, author of A Better Choice appears on Fox Business Network		Thu., Apr. 20, 2017
“Why Republicans Don’t Agree on How to Replace Obamacare” Sr. Fellow John C. Goodman, author of A Better Choice in Forbes		Tue., Apr. 18, 2017
“Why Wasn’t Trumpcare More Popular?” Sr. Fellow John C. Goodman, author of A Better Choice cited in The Atlantic		Fri., Apr. 14, 2017
“What Would A Free Market For Health Care Look Like?” Sr. Fellow John C. Goodman, author of A Better Choice in Forbes		Mon., Apr. 10, 2017
“Getting Health Reform Right” Sr. Fellow John C. Goodman, author of A Better Choice in Forbes		Tue., Apr. 4, 2017
“Republican Health Care Fiasco, Part II” Sr. Fellow John C. Goodman, author of A Better Choice in Forbes		Tue., Mar. 28, 2017
“Republican Replacement of Obamacare” Sr. Fellow John C. Goodman, author of A Better Choice appears on MSNBC		Fri., Mar. 24, 2017
“Why the GOP health care bill was pulled” Sr. Fellow John C. Goodman, author of A Better Choice appears on Fox Business Network		Fri., Mar. 24, 2017
Sr. Fellow John C. Goodman, author of A Better Choice appears on the Marc Cox show on KFTK radio in St. Louis		Tue., Mar. 14, 2017
“Paul Ryan’s Health Bill: Good, Bad and Ugly” Sr. Fellow John C. Goodman, author of A Better Choice in Forbes		Mon., Mar. 13, 2017
“A Conservative Approach To Health Reform” Sr. Fellow John C. Goodman, author of A Better Choice in Forbes		Mon., Mar. 6, 2017
“Is Repealing ObamaCare Enough?” Sr. Fellow John C. Goodman, author of A Better Choice appears on Wall Street Journal’s Opinion Live		Tue., Feb. 28, 2017
“Labor Lost a Friend” Sr. Fellow John C. Goodman, author or A Better Choice Op-Ed on TownHall.com		Mon., Feb. 20, 2017
“Do Republicans Have A Death Wish?” Sr. Fellow John C. Goodman, author of A Better Choice in Forbes		Mon., Feb. 13, 2017
“Despite gains, Medicaid expansion is on the chopping block” Sr. Fellow John C. Goodman quoted on NPR”s Marketplace		Fri., Feb. 10, 2017
“Republican Plan to Overhaul Obamacare” Sr. Fellow John C. Goodman, author of A Better Choice appears on C-SPAN”s Washington Journal		Fri., Feb. 10, 2017
“Seven Questions To Ask About Republican Health Plans” Sr. Fellow John C. Goodman, author of A Better Choice in Forbes		Tue., Jan. 31, 2017
Sr. Fellow John C. Goodman, author of A Better Choice appears on The Morning Briefing with Tim Farley on SiriusXM Radio’s POTUS Channel		Thu., Jan. 26, 2017
“How Republicans Can Keep Donald Trump’s Promises On Healthcare” Sr. Fellow John C. Goodman, author of A Better Choice in Forbes		Wed., Jan. 25, 2017
“The Left is Panicking Over Donald Trump” Sr. Fellow John C. Goodman, author of A Better Choice Op-Ed on TownHall.com		Sat., Jan. 21, 2017
“How We Can Repeal the ACA and Still Insure the Uninsured” Sr. Fellow John C. Goodman, author of A Better Choice, US Rep. Pete Sessions (R-TX) and US Sen. Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA) Op-Ed in HealthAffairs.org		Wed., Jan. 18, 2017
“Barack Obama’s Faulty Memory About Health Reform” Sr. Fellow John C. Goodman, author of A Better Choice in Forbes		Tue., Jan. 10, 2017
“Four Minefields in the Repeal of Obamacare and How to Avoid Them” Sr. Fellow John C. Goodman, author of A Better Choice in Forbes		Wed., Jan. 4, 2017
“Why the Republicans Don’t Have an Obamacare Replacement Plan” Sr. Fellow John C. Goodman, author of A Better Choice in Forbes		Tue., Dec. 20, 2016
“When Pro-Business is Pro-Labor” Sr. Fellow John C. Goodman, author of A Better Choice Op-Ed on TownHall.com		Sun., Dec. 11, 2016
“Republicans Are in A Nasty Obamacare Trap” Sr. Fellow John C. Goodman, author of A Better Choice in Forbes		Wed., Dec. 7, 2016
Sr. Fellow John C. Goodman, author of A Better Choice appears on the Marc Cox Radio Show on FM NewsTalk 97.1 in St. Louis		Thu., Dec. 1, 2016
“Can Tom Price Fulfill Donald Trump’s Campaign Promises?” Sr. Fellow John C. Goodman, author of A Better Choice in Forbes		Wed., Nov. 30, 2016
“Will Price be the Reformer to Fix the Health Care System?” Sr. Fellow John C. Goodman, author of A Better Choice interviewed on Fox News Channel		Tue., Nov. 29, 2016
“The Politics of Hate” Sr. Fellow John C. Goodlman, author of A Better Choice Op-Ed in TownHall.com		Sat., Nov. 19, 2016
“Shocker: Republicans May Not Repeal Obamacare” Sr. Fellow John C. Goodman, author of A Better Choice in Forbes		Thu., Nov. 17, 2016
“What Was the Election All About?” Sr. Fellow John C. Goodman, author of A Better Choice Op-Ed on TownHall.com		Sat., Nov. 12, 2016
“Why Should the Young and the Healthy Bail Out Obamacare?” Sr. Fellow John C. Goodman, author of A Better Choice in Forbes		Tue., Nov. 1, 2016
“Who Do You Trust More: Your Doctor or the Government?” Sr. Fellow John C. Goodman, author of A Better Choice in Forbes		Mon., Oct. 24, 2016
“Thousands of Win/Win Policy Changes Are Being Ignored by Politicians, Says New Report” Independent Institute and Sr. Fellow John C. Goodman, author of Better than Government Policy Report cited on PRNewswire.com		Tue., Oct. 18, 2016
“Not Your Father’s GOP: The Deficit Debate has Disappeared” Independent Institute Sr. Fellow John C. Goodman, author of A Better Choice quoted in CQ and RollCall.com		Tue., Oct. 18, 2016
“Does Hillary Clinton Believe in Anything?” Sr. Fellow John C. Goodman, author of A Better Choice Op-Ed in Townhall.com		Sat., Oct. 15, 2016
“A Health Plan for Donald Trump” Sr. Fellow John C. Goodman, author of A Better Choice in Forbes		Thu., Oct. 13, 2016
“Can Republicans and Democrats Agree on What to Do About ObamaCare?” Sr. Fellow John C. Goodman, author of A Better Choice in Forbes		Mon., Oct. 10, 2016
“Will Colorado Vote to Socialize Its Health Care System?” Sr. Fellow John C. Goodman, author of A Better Choice and Linda Gorman in Forbes		Mon., Oct. 3, 2016
“Does It Pay To Work?” Sr. Fellow John C. Goodman, author of A Better Choice in Forbes		Tue., Sep. 27, 2016
“Not Your Father’s GOP: The Deficit Debate Has Disappeared” Sr. Fellow John C. Goodman, author of A Better Choice quoted in Roll Call and CQ Magazine		Mon., Sep. 26, 2016
“Lies, Lies and More Lies” Sr. Fellow John C. Goodman, author of A Better Choice Op-Ed on TownHall.com		Sun., Sep. 18, 2016
“It’s Time to Liberate Health Savings Accounts” Sr. Fellow John C. Goodman, author of A Better Choice in Forbes		Wed., Sep. 14, 2016
“Which is the Party of Hate?” Sr. Fellow John C. Goodman, author of A Better Choice Op-Ed in TownHall.com		Sat., Sep. 10, 2016
“Protecting Patient Safety Without Malpractice Law” Sr. Fellow John C. Goodman, author of A Better Choice in Forbes		Tue., Sep. 6, 2016
“Which Candidate Will Raise Your Wage? (Hint: It’s not Hillary)” Sr. Fellow John C. Goodman, author of A Better Choice Op-Ed in TownHall.com		Sat., Sep. 3, 2016
“The Left and Right Appear to Agree on Something that Will Produce Better Health and Better Pensions” Sr. Fellow John C. Goodman, author of A Better Choice in Forbes		Tue., Aug. 30, 2016
“In Defense of Trump” Sr. Fellow John C. Goodman, author of A Better Choice Op-Ed on TownHall.com		Sat., Aug. 27, 2016
“Obamacare’s Ugly Death Spirals” Sr. Fellow John C. Goodman, author of A Better Choice in Forbes		Fri., Aug. 26, 2016
Sr. Fellow John C. Goodman, author of A Better Choice appears on the Marc Cox Show on KFTK-FM		Thu., Aug. 25, 2016
“Some Republicans Are Just Fine with a Public Option” Sr. Fellow John C. Goodman, author of A Better Choice in Forbes		Tue., Aug. 16, 2016
Sr. Fellow John C. Goodman, author of A Better Choice appears on The Mike Slater radio show on KFMB (CA)		Tue., Aug. 16, 2016
Sr. Fellow John C. Goodman, author of A Better Choice appears on KFTK radio’s Marc Cox Show (MO)		Mon., Aug. 15, 2016
“The Most Powerful Force for Reducing Healthcare Costs: The Marketplace” Sr. Fellow John C. Goodman, author of A Better Choice in Forbes		Wed., Aug. 10, 2016
“Do Republicans Really Want to Repeal Obamacare? Maybe Not” Sr. Fellow John C. Goodman, author of A Better Choice in Forbes		Thu., Aug. 4, 2016
“Best Kept Secret in Washington DC: The Future of Medicare” Sr. Fellow John C. Goodman, author of A Better Choice in Forbes		Mon., Jul. 25, 2016
“Why Republican Health Reform Would Be a Godsend to the States” Sr. Fellow John C. Goodman, author of A Better Choice in Forbes		Wed., Jul. 20, 2016
“Why Race Relations Have Gotten Worse Under Barack Obama” Sr. Fellow John C. Goodman, author of A Better Choice Op-Ed on TownHall.com		Thu., Jul. 14, 2016
“Who is on the Side of American Workers?” Sr. Fellow John C. Goodman, author of A Better Choice Op-Ed in TownHall.com		Sat., Jul. 9, 2016
“The Worst Entitlement Program in Our History” Sr. Fellow John C. Goodman, author of A Better Choice in Forbes		Wed., Jul. 6, 2016
“Hillary’s One Good Idea—Before She Ruined It” Sr. Fellow John C. Goodman, author of A Better Choice Op-Ed on TownHall.com		Sat., Jul. 2, 2016
“Free the Patient” Sr. Fellow John C. Goodman, author of A Better Choice in Forbes		Thu., Jun. 30, 2016
“Paul Ryan’s Health Plan, a New Alternative to Obamacare, Draws from Independent Institute Book” Independent Institute press release on Bloomberg.com, MarketWatch.com and others		Mon., Jun. 27, 2016
“Paul Krugman’s Democratic Party” Sr. Fellow John C. Goodman, author of A Better Choice Op-Ed in TownHall.com		Sat., Jun. 25, 2016
“Paul Ryan’s Universal Health Tax Credit” Sr. Fellow John C. Goodman, author of A Better Choice in Forbes		Tue., Jun. 21, 2016
“What Republicans Can Learn from Democrats About Health Reform” Sr. Fellow John C. Goodman, author of A Better Choice in Forbes		Mon., Jun. 20, 2016
“Identity Politics: Krugman Gets One Right” Sr. Fellow John C. Goodman, author of A Better Choice Op-Ed in TownHall.com		Sat., Jun. 11, 2016
“New GOP Bill Promises Real Health Care Reform” Sr. Fellow John C. Goodman, author of A Better Choice Op-Ed in Forbes		Thu., Jun. 9, 2016
“New Bill to Replace Obamacare Draws from Independent Institute Book” Sr. Fellow John C. Goodman, author of A Better Choice cited in Pharmacy Choice		Mon., Jun. 6, 2016
“Five Things A New Health Savings Account Proposal Would Not Do” Sr. Fellow John C. Goodman, author of A Better Choice in Forbes		Fri., Jun. 3, 2016
“An Obamacare Alternative” Sr. Fellow John C. Goodman, author of A Better Choice appears on the Bill Martinez Radio Show		Tue., May. 31, 2016
“A Possible Republican Truce on Obamacare” Sr. Fellow John C. Goodman, author of A Better Choice cited in The Atlantic		Sat., May. 28, 2016
“Universal Health Insurance Tax Credit Enters GOP Mix of Obamacare Alternatives” Sr. Fellow John C. Goodman, author of A Better Choice cited on Heartland.org		Fri., May. 27, 2016
“Examining Obamacare Repeal & Replace Options” Sr. Fellow John C. Goodman, author of A Better Choice mentioned on Heartland.org podcast		Wed., May. 25, 2016
“New Bill to Replace Obamacare Draws from Independent Institute Book” Sr. Fellow John C. Goodman, author of A Better Choice cited on CNBC.com and others through PR Newswire		Tue., May. 24, 2016
“Do Republicans Have A Death Wish On Healthcare?” Sr. Fellow John C. Goodman, author of A Better Choice in Forbes		Mon., May. 23, 2016
“GOP Health Plan Promises to Meet Health Care Goals by Assigning A Smaller Role to Government” Sr. Fellow John C. Goodman, author of A Better Choice cited in Bloomberg News		Mon., May. 23, 2016
“GOP Lawmakers unveil Obamacare Replacement Bill” Sr. Fellow John C. Goodman, author of A Better Choice cited in The Hill		Thu., May. 19, 2016
“As Republicans Look for an Obamacare Replacement, Two GOP Lawmakers Make Their Own Bid” Sr. Fellow John C. Goodman, author of A Better Choice quoted in the Los Angeles Times		Wed., May. 18, 2016
“Is Hillary Clinton A Threat to Our Health?” Sr. Fellow John C. Goodman, author of A Better Choice in Forbes		Mon., May. 16, 2016
“Trump and Sanders: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly” Sr. Fellow John C. Goodman, author of A Better Choice Op-Ed in TownHall Magazine		Sat., May. 14, 2016
“Eight Health Reforms the GOP Should Avoid” Sr. Fellow John C. Goodman, author of A Better Choice in Forbes		Mon., May. 9, 2016
“Democracy’s Death Spiral” Sr. Fellow John C. Goodman, author of A Better Choice Op-Ed in TownHall.com		Sat., May. 7, 2016
“Can the Government Make Doctors Better Doctors?” Sr. Fellow John C. Goodman, author of A Better Choice in Forbes		Mon., May. 2, 2016
“Which Party is Better for the Economy?” Sr. Fellow John C. Goodman, author of A Better Choice Op-Ed in Townhall.com		Sat., Apr. 30, 2016
“A Little Common Sense Could Save Billions in Government Healthcare Spending” Sr. Fellow John C. Goodman, author of A Better Choice in Forbes		Tue., Apr. 26, 2016
“GOP Bill Replaces ObamaCare Mandates and Subsidies With Choice, Competition, and Tax Credits” Sr. Fellow John C. Goodman, author of A Better Choice cited in Breitbart.com		Tue., Apr. 26, 2016
“What if the Left Doesn’t Really Want to Achieve its Policy Goals?” Sr. Fellow John C. Goodman, author of A Better Choice Op-Ed in TownHall.com		Sat., Apr. 23, 2016
“Roth Health Savings Accounts: What the World Needs Now” Sr. Fellow John C. Goodman, author of A Better Choice in Forbes		Tue., Apr. 19, 2016
“Welcome to the World of Rosencare: This CEO Solved His Company’s Healthcare Problems Without Washington” Sr. Fellow John C. Goodman, author of A Better Choice article in CEO World Magazine		Fri., Apr. 15, 2016
“Better Care at A Fraction of the Cost—Only A Plane Ride Away” Sr. Fellow John C. Goodman, author of A Better Choice in Forbes		Mon., Apr. 11, 2016
“Putting the Democratic Party on the Couch” Sr. Fellow John C. Goodman, author of A Better Choice Op-Ed in TownHall.com		Sat., Apr. 9, 2016
“Radical Reform Labor Law, Part II” Sr. Fellow John C. Goodman, author of A Better Choice in Forbes		Wed., Apr. 6, 2016
“It’s Time to Abolish the Legal Term ‘Employment’” Sr. Fellow John C. Goodman, author of A Better Choice in Forbes		Mon., Apr. 4, 2016
“$15 an Hour. Why Not $30? Why Not $100?” Sr. Fellow John C. Goodman, author of A Better Choice Op-Ed in TownHall.com		Sat., Apr. 2, 2016
“Why Do None of the GOP Presidential Candidates Have A Credible Health Plan?” Sr. Fellow John C. Goodman, author of A Better Choice in Forbes		Mon., Mar. 28, 2016
“The Trump Campaign and Race Baiting at The New York Times” Sr. Fellow John C. Goodman, author of A Better Choice Op-Ed in TownHall.com		Sat., Mar. 26, 2016
“How Donald Trump Could Win the Election by Reforming Healthcare and the Tax Code” Sr. Fellow John C. Goodman, author of A Better Choice in Forbes		Mon., Mar. 21, 2016
“Repeal-Obsessed Republicans Don’t Understand Obamacare Is Kind of A Gift” Sr. Fellow John C. Goodman, author of A Better Choice in Forbes (Part 1 of 3)		Wed., Mar. 16, 2016
“Obamacare Exchanges, Medicaid Expansion Degrade Health Care Quality” Sr. Fellow John C. Goodman, author of A Better Choice in Forbes (Part 2 of 3)		Wed., Mar. 16, 2016
“Health-Insurance Tax Credits Are ‘A Financial Mandate’” Sr. Fellow John C. Goodman, author of A Better Choice in Forbes (Part 3 of 3)		Wed., Mar. 16, 2016
“Is Free Trade Bad for American Workers?” Sr. Fellow John C. Goodman, author of A Better Choice Op-Ed in TownHall.com		Sat., Mar. 12, 2016
“Are High Deductibles A Good Thing? Part II” Sr. Fellow John C. Goodman, author of A Better Choice in Forbes		Wed., Mar. 9, 2016
“Are High Deductibles A Good Thing? Part I” Sr. Fellow John C. Goodman, author of A Better Choice in Forbes		Mon., Mar. 7, 2016
“Race Baiting, Polarization and the Attacks on Donald Trump” Sr. Fellow John C. Goodman, author of A Better Choice Op-Ed in TownHall.com		Sat., Mar. 5, 2016
“Better Care at One Tenth the Cost” Sr. Fellow John C. Goodman, author of A Better Choice in Forbes		Wed., Mar. 2, 2016
“Yes, Marco Rubio’s Obamacare Replacement Plan—Tax Credits—Is An Individual Mandate” Sr. Fellow John C. Goodman, author of A Better Choice cited in Forbes		Mon., Feb. 29, 2016
“Portable Health Insurance: An Idea Whose Time Has Come” Sr. Fellow John C. Goodman, author of A Better Choice in Forbes		Mon., Feb. 22, 2016
“Has The New York Times Become a Democratic Party Newspaper?” Sr. Fellow John C. Goodman, author of A Better Choice Op-Ed in TownHall.com		Sat., Feb. 20, 2016
“Where Did the Idea of Obamacare Come From? A Defense of the Heritage Foundation” Sr. Fellow John C. Goodman, author of A Better Choice in Forbes		Mon., Feb. 15, 2016
“Bernie Sanders is Not a Social Democrat; He’s a Marxist” Sr. Fellow John C. Goodman, author of A Better Choice Op-Ed in TownHall.com		Sat., Feb. 13, 2016
“Obamacare In The Workplace: Fewer Hours, Lower Incomes And Less Health Insurance” Sr. Fellow John C. Goodman, author of A Better Choice in Forbes		Tue., Feb. 9, 2016
“Relief of Poverty: Four Centuries of Futility” Sr. Fellow John C. Goodman, author of A Better Choice Op-Ed in TownHall.com		Mon., Feb. 8, 2016
“Krugman Recants On Healthcare; The Left Is Apoplectic” Sr. Fellow John C. Goodman, author of A Better Choice in Forbes		Mon., Feb. 8, 2016
“Surgeon Posts Prices Online to Improve Transparency, Competition” Sr. Fellow John C. Goodman, author of A Better Choice quoted on Heartland.org		Sun., Feb. 7, 2016
“Nearly 13 Million People Enrolled in ACA Plans for 2016” Sr. Fellow John C. Goodman, author of A Better Choice quoted in USA Today		Fri., Feb. 5, 2016
“The US Is Rationing Life-Saving Drugs” Sr. Fellow John C. Goodman, author or A Better Choice in Forbes		Tue., Feb. 2, 2016
“Almost Everything You’ve Been Told About Inequality Is Wrong” Sr. Fellow John C. Goodman, author of A Better Choice in Forbes		Mon., Feb. 1, 2016
“How Are Republicans and Democrats Different?” Sr. Fellow John C. Goodman, author of A Better Choice on TownHall.com		Sat., Jan. 30, 2016
“Let Employers Decide How Health Insurance Should Be Subsidized At Work” Sr. Fellow John C. Goodman, author of A Better Choice in Forbes		Mon., Jan. 25, 2016
“Why Are Some People Healthier than Others?” Sr. Fellow John C. Goodman, author of A Better Choice in Forbes		Wed., Jan. 20, 2016
“Democrats’ Health Care Debate: Clinton and Sanders Are Both Wrong” Sr. Fellow John C. Goodman, author of A Better Choice in Forbes		Mon., Jan. 18, 2016
“One Hospital Tells You What You Will Have to Pay—Before the Surgery” Sr. Fellow John C. Goodman, author of A Better Choice in Forbes		Thu., Jan. 14, 2016
“Why Are Hospital Prices So Crazy? Hint: The Hospitals May Not Be at Fault” Sr. Fellow John C. Goodman, author of A Better Choice in Forbes		Mon., Jan. 11, 2016
“What You Need to Know About “The Big Short”” Sr. Fellow John C. Goodman, author of A Better Choice Op-Ed in Townhall.com		Wed., Dec. 30, 2015
“Our Most Divisive Political Issue” Sr. Fellow John C. Goodman, author of A Better Choice Op-Ed in Townhall.com		Sat., Dec. 26, 2015
“Obamacare Taxes on the Poor and the Middle Class Held at Bay” Sr. Fellow John C. Goodman, author of A Better Choice in Forbes		Mon., Dec. 21, 2015
“AEI Health Plan: Many Good Ideas, But Some Missed Opportunities” Sr. Fellow John C. Goodman, author of A Better Choice in Forbes		Mon., Dec. 14, 2015
“The Biggest Threat to Obamacare is Already Written into Law: No Insurance Industry Bailouts” Sr. Fellow John C. Goodman, author of A Better Choice in Forbes		Thu., Dec. 10, 2015
“Is Liberalism Good for Poor People?” Sr. Fellow John C. Goodman, author of A Better Choice Op-Ed in TownHall.com		Sat., Dec. 5, 2015
Sr. Fellow John C. Goodman, author of A Better Choice interviewed on Larry Conners USA radio		Fri., Dec. 4, 2015
“How Much Should We Spend on Patients at the End of Their Lives?” Sr. Fellow John C. Goodman, author of A Better Choice in Forbes		Mon., Nov. 30, 2015
“Progressivism and Racism” Sr. Fellow John C. Goodman, author of A Better Choice Op-Ed in TownHall.com		Sat., Nov. 28, 2015
“What Hillary Clinton Doesn’t Understand About Healthcare” Sr. Fellow John C. Goodman, author of A Better Choice in Forbes		Wed., Nov. 25, 2015
“What Should We Do About Expensive Drugs?” Sr. Fellow John C. Goodman, author of A Better Choice in Forbes		Wed., Nov. 18, 2015
“What Barack Obama and the Democratic Party Can Learn from the CO-OP Failures” Sr. Fellow John C. Goodman, author of A Better Choice in Forbes		Mon., Nov. 16, 2015
“What Everyone Should Know About Rationing by Waiting” Sr. Fellow John C. Goodman, author of A Better Choice in Forbes		Mon., Nov. 9, 2015
“Is Your Home Your Castle? You Wish” Sr. Fellow John C. Goodman, author of A Better Choice Op-Ed in TownHall		Sat., Nov. 7, 2015
“Three Excellent Ideas from Jeb Bush: Liberate Two-Earner Couples and Liberate the Elderly” Sr. Fellow John C. Goodman, author of A Better Choice in Forbes		Fri., Nov. 6, 2015
“ObamaCare Premium Hikes Much Higher than We’ve Been Told” Sr. Fellow John C. Goodman, author of A Better Choice in Forbes		Wed., Nov. 4, 2015
“Ideal Health Policy: First Do No Harm” Sr. Fellow John C. Goodman, author of A Better Choice in Forbes		Thu., Oct. 29, 2015
“Race to the Bottom: Competition in the Exchanges” Sr. Fellow John C. Goodman, author of A Better Choice in Forbes		Mon., Oct. 26, 2015
“Why Inequality Is the Democrats’ Dilemma” Sr. Fellow John C. Goodman, author of A Better Choice Op-Ed on TownHall.com		Sat., Oct. 24, 2015
“What Republicans Should Be Doing: Holding Hearings on Obamacare” Sr. Fellow John C. Goodman, author of A Better Choice in Forbes		Fri., Oct. 23, 2015
“The Employer Mandate Is Having No Effect on the Percent with Health Insurance at Work” Sr. Fellow John C. Goodman, author of A Better Choice in Forbes		Thu., Oct. 22, 2015
“Why Making A Profit In Health Care Is Good” Sr. Fellow John C. Goodman, author of A Better Choice in Forbes		Wed., Oct. 21, 2015
“Who is the Real Con Man: Ryan or Krugman?” Sr. Fellow John C. Goodman, author of A Better Choice Op-Ed in TownHall.com		Mon., Oct. 19, 2015
“California’s New Law Advances the Right to Die with Dignity” Sr. Fellow John C. Goodman, author of A Better Choice Op-Ed in Newsday (NY) Philadelphia Inquirer and other Tribune syndicated newspapers		Thu., Oct. 15, 2015
“The Jeb Bush Health Plan: Five Ways It Differs from What Obama’s Done” Sr. Fellow John C. Goodman, author of A Better Choice in Forbes		Wed., Oct. 14, 2015
“How Government Regulation Is Undermining Mental Health Care” Sr. Fellow John C. Goodman, author of A Better Choice in Forbes		Mon., Oct. 12, 2015
“Why Not Just Get Rid of Labor Law?” Sr. Fellow John C. Goodman, author of A Better Choice in Townhall.com		Sat., Oct. 10, 2015
“Is ObamaCare Good for the Middle Class?” Sr. Fellow John C. Goodman, author of A Better Choice in Forbes		Thu., Oct. 8, 2015
“Are High Deductibles a Good Thing or a Bad Thing?” Sr. Fellow John C. Goodman, author of A Better Choice in Forbes		Wed., Oct. 7, 2015
“Why Obamacare’s Cost Control Efforts Aren’t Working” Sr. Fellow John C. Goodman, author of A Better Choice in Heartland News		Mon., Oct. 5, 2015
“Why Is There Global Poverty?” Sr. Fellow John C. Goodman, author of A Better Choice in Forbes		Mon., Oct. 5, 2015
“Republican Candidates Versus The New York Times: Why Isn’t the Economy Growing Faster?” Sr. Fellow John C. Goodman, author of A Better Choice in TownHall.com		Mon., Oct. 5, 2015
“What Should Be Next for the GOP: An Alternative to Obama Policies” Sr. Fellow John C. Goodman, author of A Better Choice in Forbes		Tue., Sep. 29, 2015
“Jeb Bush Vs. Paul Krugman: What Do Economists Know About Regulation?” Sr. Fellow John C. Goodman, author of A Better Choice in Forbes		Mon., Sep. 28, 2015
“Why—and How—to Repeal and Replace Obamacare” A Better Choice By Sr. Fellow John C. Goodman is reviewed in Regulation Magazine		Mon., Sep. 28, 2015
“Henderson on Goodman on Obamacare” A Better Choice By Sr. Fellow John C. Goodman cited on EconLog		Mon., Sep. 28, 2015
“Capitalism, Socialism and the Pope” Sr. Fellow John C. Goodman, author of A Better Choice Op-Ed in Town Hall		Sat., Sep. 26, 2015
“A Market-Based Alternative to the $750 Pill” Sr. Fellow John C. Goodman, author of A Better Choice in Forbes		Fri., Sep. 25, 2015
“The New Left: Envy, Resentment and Hate” Sr. Fellow John C. Goodman, author of A Better Choice Op- Ed in Town Hall		Mon., Sep. 21, 2015
“Keynesianism Vs. Paul Krugman and Why We Aren’t Growing Faster” Sr. Fellow John C. Goodman, author of A Better Choice in Forbes		Mon., Sep. 21, 2015
“Counter Revolution from the Left: Corbyn, Sanders and Krugman” Sr. Fellow John C. Goodman, author of A Better Choice in Forbes		Tue., Sep. 15, 2015
Sr. Fellow John C. Goodman, author of A Better Choice is interviewed on C-SPAN’s Book TV		Mon., Sep. 14, 2015
“Why is there So Much Economic Illiteracy? Paul Krugman is One Reason” Sr. Fellow John C. Goodman, author of A Better Choice Op-Ed in Townhall.com		Sat., Sep. 12, 2015
“Why Does Anyone Work?” Sr. Fellow John C. Goodman, author of A Better Choice in Forbes		Wed., Sep. 9, 2015
“Why Obamacare’s Cost Control Efforts Aren’t Working” Sr. Fellow John C. Goodman, author of A Better Choice in Forbes		Wed., Sep. 9, 2015
“Why Raising the Minimum Wage is a Bad Idea” Sr. Fellow John C. Goodman, author of A Better Choice Op-Ed in Townhall		Tue., Sep. 8, 2015
“Limited Benefit Insurance: An Alternative to Obamacare” Sr. Fellow John C. Goodman, author of A Better Choice in Forbes		Wed., Sep. 2, 2015
“Cato Goes Off the Rails on Health Policy” Sr. Fellow John C. Goodman, author of A Better Choice in Forbes		Mon., Aug. 31, 2015
“Earth to Paul Krugman and The New York Times: Debt Is Not Good” Sr. Fellow John C. Goodman, author of A Better Choice Op-Ed in Townhall		Sat., Aug. 29, 2015
“The Republican Cadillac Tax” Sr. Fellow John C. Goodman, author of A Better Choice in Forbes		Thu., Aug. 27, 2015
“Don’t Repeal the Cadillac Plan Tax—Replace It” Sr. Fellow John C. Goodman, author of A Better Choice in Forbes		Wed., Aug. 26, 2015
“Why Conservatives Should Care About Ferguson” Sr. Fellow John C. Goodman, author of A Better ChoiceOp-Ed in Town Hall		Mon., Aug. 24, 2015
“What Can Go Wrong With A Private Health Insurance Exchange? A Lot” Sr. Fellow John C. Goodman, author of A Better Choice in Forbes		Mon., Aug. 24, 2015
“Why Bobby Jindal is Wrong About Scott Walker’s Health Plan” Sr. Fellow John C. Goodman, author of A Better Choice in Forbes		Fri., Aug. 21, 2015
“Health Plan: Rubio Gets It Right” Sr. Fellow John C. Goodman, author of Choice in Forbes		Wed., Aug. 19, 2015
“Scott Walker’s Health Plan: Good, But Could Be Better” Sr. Fellow John C. Goodman, author of A Better Choice in Forbes		Tue., Aug. 18, 2015
“Was Obamacare Produced by Crony Capitalism?” Sr. Fellow John C. Goodman, author of A Better Choice in Forbes		Mon., Aug. 17, 2015
“Why College Tuition is Out of Sight: The Federal Government” Sr. Fellow John C. Goodman, author of A Better Choice in TownHall.com		Sat., Aug. 15, 2015
“Social Security: An Unhappy 80th Birthday” Sr. Fellow John C. Goodman, author of A Better Choice in TownHall.com		Thu., Aug. 13, 2015
“Why was Social Security Designed Like a Ponzi Scheme?” Sr. Fellow John C. Goodman, author of A Better Choice in Forbes		Thu., Aug. 13, 2015
“A Victory for Free Speech and Common Sense” Sr. Fellow John C. Goodman, author of A Better Choice in Forbes		Tue., Aug. 11, 2015
“What Does it Mean to Be a Democrat?” Sr. Fellow John C. Goodman, author of A Better Choice Op-Ed in TownHall.com		Fri., Aug. 7, 2015
“How Much Do We Owe? $72 Trillion And Counting” Sr. Fellow John C. Goodman, author of A Better Choice in Forbes		Fri., Aug. 7, 2015
“Why You Can’t Find The Doctor You Need” John C. Goodman, author of A Better Choice in Forbes		Wed., Aug. 5, 2015
“How Republicans Should (And Shouldn’t) Talk About Medicare” Sr. Fellow John C. Goodman, author of A Better Choice in Forbes		Mon., Aug. 3, 2015
“What Paul Krugman Doesn’t Understand About Medicare” Sr. Fellow John C. Goodman, author of A Better Choice in Forbes		Wed., Jul. 29, 2015
“It’s Time to Rethink Our Labor Laws” Sr. Fellow John C. Goodman, author of A Better Choice in TownHall.com		Sat., Jul. 25, 2015
“What Does Uber Medicine Look Like?” Sr. Fellow John C. Goodman, author of A Better Choice in Forbes		Fri., Jul. 24, 2015
“How Much is Medicaid Really Worth to Beneficiaries and Taxpayers?” Sr. Fellow John C. Goodman, author of A Better Choice on Heartland.org		Tue., Jul. 21, 2015
“It’s Time To Rethink Our Labor Laws” Sr. Fellow John C. Goodman, author of A Better Choice in Forbes		Tue., Jul. 21, 2015
“Can Everyone’s Wage Be Above Average? Krugman and Clinton are Wrong” Sr. Fellow John C. Goodman, author of A Better Choice in Forbes		Mon., Jul. 20, 2015
“More on Licensed to Kill” Sr. Fellow John C. Goodman, author of A Better Choice Op-Ed on TownHall.com		Sat., Jul. 18, 2015
“Paul Krugman, Jeb Bush, Charles Murray And Laziness” Sr. Fellow John C. Goodman, author of A Better Choice in Forbes		Tue., Jul. 14, 2015
“What Paul Krugman Doesn’t Understand About Greece” Sr. Fellow John C. Goodman, author of A Better Choice in Forbes		Mon., Jul. 13, 2015
“Licensed to Kill” Sr. Fellow John C. Goodman, author of A Better Choice on Townhall.com		Sat., Jul. 11, 2015
“Standing Between You and All the Benefits of Telemedicine: The AMA and the Federal Government” Sr. Fellow John C. Goodman, author of A Better Choice in Forbes		Thu., Jul. 9, 2015
“What Should Republicans Be Doing About Obamacare?” Sr. Fellow John C. Goodman, author of A Better Choice in Forbes		Wed., Jul. 8, 2015
“More Evidence of Death Spirals Ahead” Sr. Fellow John C. Goodman, author of A Better Choice in Forbes		Mon., Jul. 6, 2015
“Simple Solutions to the Worst Problems in ObamaCare” Sr. Fellow John C. Goodman, author of A Better Choice Op-Ed in Town Hall		Sat., Jul. 4, 2015
“Block Granting Obamacare to the States: Sense or Nonsense?” Sr. Fellow John C. Goodman, author of A Better Choice in Forbes		Tue., Jun. 30, 2015
“The Supreme Court Saves The Republicans—From Themselves” Sr. Fellow John C. Goodman, author of A Better Choice in Forbes		Mon., Jun. 29, 2015
“Papal Economics and Papal Climatology” Sr. Fellow John C. Goodman, author of A Better Choice on Townhall.com		Sat., Jun. 27, 2015
“Six Problems With The ACA That Aren’t Going Away” Sr. Fellow John C. Goodman, author of A Better Choice in Health Affairs		Thu., Jun. 25, 2015
Sr. Fellow John C. Goodman, author of A Better Choice is interviewed by CBS News Interactive following Supreme Court decision on Obamacare		Thu., Jun. 25, 2015
“Are the (ObamaCare) Exchanges Headed Toward A Death Spiral?” Sr. Fellow John C. Goodman, author of A Better Choice in Forbes		Wed., Jun. 24, 2015
“Krugman Wrong About Jeb” Sr. Fellow John C. Goodman, author of A Better Choice in Forbes		Mon., Jun. 22, 2015
“Why Voters Vote” Sr. Fellow John C. Goodman, author of A Better Choice on Townhall.com		Sat., Jun. 20, 2015
“Should Republicans Kick The ObamaCare Can Down The Road?” Sr. Fellow John C. Goodman, author of A Better Choice in Forbes		Fri., Jun. 19, 2015
“Finally, a Republican Alternative to ObamaCare is Emerging” Sr. Fellow John C. Goodman, author of A Better Choice Op-Ed in The Hill		Thu., Jun. 18, 2015
“Health Reform Without the Vision Thing” Sr. Fellow John C. Goodman, author of A Better Choice in Forbes		Wed., Jun. 17, 2015
“Krugman on Rick Perry: Good Government Doesn’t Matter” Sr. Fellow John C. Goodman, author of A Better Choice on Townhall.com		Sat., Jun. 13, 2015
“How Much Is Medicaid Really Worth?” Sr. Fellow John C. Goodman, author of A Better Choice in Forbes		Wed., Jun. 10, 2015
“How Much Does Paul Krugman Want to Tax LeBron James?” Sr. Fellow John C. Goodman, author of A Better Choice on Townhall.com		Sat., Jun. 6, 2015
“Independent Publishing & The Independent Institute” Acquisitions Director Roy M. Carlisle interviewed by IPBA about A Better Choice		Fri., Jun. 5, 2015
“No Plan B? White House, States in Bind if Supreme Court Strikes ObamaCare Subsidies” Sr. Fellow John C. Goodman, author of A Better Choice on Fox News Channel		Fri., Jun. 5, 2015
“Free The Nurses” Sr. Fellow John C. Goodman, author of A Better Choice in Forbes		Tue., Jun. 2, 2015
“Jeb Bush’s Medicaid Reforms Are Working” Sr. Fellow John C. Goodman, author of A Better Choice Op-Ed in Real Clear Policy		Tue., Jun. 2, 2015
“How Dishonest is Barack Obama?” Sr. Fellow John C. Goodman, author of A Better Choice on Townhall.com		Sat., May. 30, 2015
“Markets Can Heal U.S. Healthcare” Sr. Fellow John C. Goodman, author of A Better Choice on Wall Street Journal’s Opinion Live		Wed., May. 27, 2015
“What Does Washington Have Against Kids?” Sr. Fellow John C. Goodman, author of A Better Choice in Forbes		Wed., May. 27, 2015
“What Does The New York Times Have Against Kids?” Sr. Fellow John C. Goodman, author of A Better Choice in Forbes		Tue., May. 26, 2015
“Free the Students” Sr. Fellow John C. Goodman, author of A Better Choice in TownHall.com		Sat., May. 23, 2015
“Will Texas Medicine Return to the Middle Ages?” Sr. Fellow John C. Goodman, author of A Better Choice in Forbes		Fri., May. 22, 2015
“Cassidy Health Plan: The Third Way,” op-ed by John C. Goodman (The Hill)		Fri., May. 22, 2015
“Why Are Some Countries Rich and Others Poor?” Sr. Fellow John C. Goodman, author of A Better Choice in Forbes		Thu., May. 21, 2015
“John Goodman: Ferrara Has it Right — Privatize the Government” Sr. Fellow John C. Goodman, author of A Better Choice cited in NewsMax.com		Mon., May. 18, 2015
“Can A Robot Do Your Job?” Sr. Fellow John C. Goodman, author of A Better Choice in Forbes		Mon., May. 18, 2015
“Is the Democratic Party Becoming Anti-Labor?” Sr. Fellow John C. Goodman, author of A Better Choice on Townhall.com		Sat., May. 16, 2015
“Power To The People: Can We Privatize the Welfare State?” Sr. Fellow John C. Goodman, author of A Better Choice in Forbes		Thu., May. 14, 2015
“How to Get A Drug Company to Give You an Experimental Drug and Other Health Care Updates” Sr. Fellow John C. Goodman, author of A Better Choice in Forbes		Tue., May. 12, 2015
“When Liberals Run Cities” Sr. Fellow John C. Goodman Op-Ed in TownHall.com		Sat., May. 9, 2015
“Ten Things I Bet You Don’t Know About Health Savings Accounts” Sr. Fellow John C. Goodman, author of A Better Choice in Forbes		Fri., May. 8, 2015
“How Much Of The Cost Should The Patient Bear?” Sr. Fellow John C. Goodman, author of A Better Choice in Forbes		Thu., May. 7, 2015
“Why Is There So Much Unnecessary Care?” Sr. Fellow John C. Goodman, author of A Better Choice in Forbes		Tue., May. 5, 2015
“Is Growing Inequality Caused by Liberal Public Policies?” Sr. Fellow John C. Goodman, author of A Better Choice in Forbes		Mon., May. 4, 2015
“An Argument for Deregulating the Exchanges” Sr. Fellow John C. Goodman, author of A Better Choice in California Broker Magazine		Wed., Apr. 29, 2015
“Why Do We Have A Death Tax?” Sr. Fellow John C. Goodman, author of A Better Choice in Forbes		Tue., Apr. 28, 2015
“New Book Offers a Better Choice than Obamacare” A Better Choice by John C. Goodman announcement on Reuters Online, World Net Daily, and 35 others		Tue., Apr. 28, 2015
“Are People Getting More Care Or Better Care Under Obamacare? No” Sr. Fellow John C. Goodman, author of A Better Choice on Townhall.com		Sat., Apr. 11, 2015
John C. Goodman, author of A Better Choice is interviewed on TV at the 12th Annual World Health Care Congress		Sun., Mar. 22, 2015

Events

Event		Date
Senior Fellow John Goodman, author of A Better Choice speaks on “Should the US Adopt a Single Payer Healthcare System?” at the Drury University Healthcare Debate on April 9, 2018		Mon., Apr. 9, 2018
Sr. Fellow John C. Goodman, author of A Better Choice speaks at New Bridges: Advancing Liberty & Prosperity in a Divided America event in Dallas May 9, 2017		Tue., May. 9, 2017
“Will Obamacare Really be Repealed?” Sr. Fellow John C. Goodman, author of A Better Choice to speak at Grassroot Institute of Hawaii event on January 10, 2016 in Oahu, HI		Tue., Jan. 10, 2017
Sr. Fellow John C. Goodman, author of A Better Choice to speak at Economic Club of Indiana on March 21, 2016		Fri., Aug. 28, 2015
Senior Fellow John Goodman to speak at “Summit at the Summit” hosted by United Physicians and Surgeons of America in Keystone, CO		Sun., Jul. 26, 2015
Sr. Fellow John C. Goodman, author of A Better Choice to speak at the Cato Institute in Washington, DC on Wednesday, July 22, 2015		Wed., Jul. 22, 2015
Senior Fellow John C. Goodman speaks on A Better Choice at luncheon event in New York City hosted by the Manhattan Institute.		Thu., Jun. 25, 2015
A Better Choice and Priceless author Sr. Fellow John C. Goodman to speak at the Arthroscopy Association of North America meeting in Los Angeles on April 23, 2015		Thu., Apr. 2, 2015
John Goodman speaks on “Six Problems That Won’t Go Away” regarding A Better Choice at opening reception of the 12th Annual World Health Care Congress Convention in Washington, D.C.		Sun., Mar. 22, 2015
John C. Goodman, author of A Better Choice debates pro-Obamacare economist Len Nichols at the Independent Physicians Association of America Conference in San Antonio, TX		Thu., Mar. 19, 2015