Michael F. Cannon 🇮🇪🇺🇸
@mfcannon
“Influential health care wonk at the libertarian @CatoInstitute”-WP “A pleasant discovery” -Capitalism mag @CatoHealth @mfcannon.bsky.social 🧵: @michaelfcannon
Think of your least favorite presidential candidate. Now imagine s/he wins. Doesn’t limiting government power seem like a good idea?
The second sentence gets ahead of the evidence. Otherwise, yep.
From @WSJopinion: Medicare and Medicaid fail a basic scientific test. The programs don’t do what they claim to. If they were drugs, regulators would pull them from the market, writes @mfcannon. on.wsj.com/45nHkBd
The second sentence gets ahead of the evidence. Otherwise, yep.
Medicare and Medicaid fail a basic scientific test. The programs don’t do what they claim to. If they were drugs, regulators would pull them from the market, writes @mfcannon on.wsj.com/40wJ9Km
Existing research leaves it unclear whether Medicare or Medicaid serve the goal of better health. If you think the answer is obvious, it's not. wsj.com/opinion/medica…
I've been thinking about how AI cannot outperform the price system. So have @Marian_L_Tupy & @PeterBoettke. The price system is a more powerful AI than any algorithm. Not even when the machines plug us all into The Matrix could the computers compete. wsj.com/opinion/algori…
Medicare and Medicaid Fail a Basic Scientific Test by @mfcannon wsj.com/opinion/medica… via @WSJopinion @ScotsFyre @PolitiBunny
Medicare and Medicaid Fail a Basic Scientific Test by @mfcannon wsj.com/opinion/medica… via @WSJopinion
Since 1965, Medicare and Medicaid have spent $45 trillion without substantial evidence of effectiveness. We should care about the nation potentially wasting trillions on subsidies whose efficacy remains unclear. by @mfcannon wsj.com/opinion/medica…
Critics of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act claim that, because it would slow the growth of federal Medicaid spending from 4.5% to 2.7% annually, thousands will die. Yet evidence for this is wanting. My latest in the @WSJ: wsj.com/opinion/medica…
“Since 1965, Medicare and Medicaid have spent $45 trillion without substantial evidence of effectiveness. If we care about patients wasting millions on drugs that don’t work, we should care about the nation potentially wasting trillions on subsidies whose efficacy remains…
Medicare and Medicaid Fail a Basic Scientific Test by @mfcannon wsj.com/opinion/medica…
Medicare and Medicaid Fail a Basic Scientific Test by @mfcannon wsj.com/opinion/medica…
A cut, but where you spend MORE money.
A cut, but where you spend MORE money.
That disconnect is wild... we'd never accept this kind of performance from private sector but somehow it's fine here?
Health policy ru(i)ns the entire world, including the federal budget, tax policy, tech policy, trade, defense and foreign policy, and presidential power.
Look, I was happy just to get into 4/4 illegitimate ones.
If you're so smart Michael, why is it that not a single legitimate college accepted you?
🚨🚨 New Paper Alert! 🚨🚨 Together with an awesome crew, I've got a fun new paper analyzing whether hospital acquisitions of physician practices raise prices by lessening competition. @stuartcraig Aristotelis Epanomeritakis, Joe Martinez, Matt Grennan, @ProfFionasm, and…
My good friend, my colleague of 20+ years, and education policy nerd @NealMcCluskey is just plain wrong. My policy area is way more of a mess than his. cato.org/multimedia/cat… @CatoInstitute
Cato Cage Match: Education vs. Health Care cato.org/multimedia/cat… via @CatoInstitute Who has the toughter libertarian job, me or @mfcannon?
"It has been more than seven months since Donald Trump took office as president, and the Senate still hasn’t held confirmation hearings for his nominee for surgeon general." @dr4liberty has a better idea: let's just not. cato.org/blog/nation-do…
🚨New @CatoInstitute study🚨 Eliminating the Surgeon General & the Public Health Service Commissioned Corps, and reassigning legitimate public health activities to other agencies, would improve public health and the federal budget outlook. cato.org/policy-analysi… @dr4liberty
