(E)mbrace the “health care wars”—because with the help of the Trump administration and free-market state lawmakers across the country, consumers have more options now than at any time since Obamacare was first imposed.

Sarah Lee - We Should Welcome the ‘Health Care Wars’ https://t.co/ODEpleWUEz

— Townhall.com (@townhallcom) June 14, 2018

...as the histrionics over who is to blame for today’s rising health care costs has already begun. Democrats blame Republicans for effectively getting rid of Obamacare because insurers are threatening higher premiums, but Republicans have the better argument because premiums and deductibles were rising before Obamacare started its death spiral.

As of yet, there aren’t hard and fast solutions to these problems, but there are good reasons for Americans to feel hopeful about health insurance again. They need only look in the right place. And that place is much closer to home than Washington, DC.

Reporters are doing their best to convince Americans health care should be the primary issuein the 2018 midterm elections and that Trump and Republicans deserve the blame for the system’s current woes, but many average Americans desperately looking for inexpensive health insurance should stop looking to the federal government for answers and start examining what the legislators in their own state are doing to make health care more affordable. Many states are now introducing numerous cost-saving innovations and utilizing market forces to improve health care access.

Back to the future of education

◼ There is no greater threat to our Republic than the merging of the helicopter parent with the modern day legislator. - Human Events

The miracle of modern childhood is that children flourish despite parents’ best efforts; the miracle of a market economy is it thrives despite government’s paternalism. The story of an Indian educational entrepreneur illustrates that well.

When Sugata Mitra received his PhD in physics, he anticipated a lengthy teaching career. He quickly realized the only people who understood computer programming went into physics. Then one day in 1999, looking out his Delhi office window, he noticed groups of ragtag children wandering the streets.

He had an idea. He built a simple kiosk that housed nothing but a computer. He did not know what to expect but his rules were simple: Only children could use it. There would be no adults and no instructional manual.

That “Hole in the Wall” experiment did more than launch a new career. It led to Minimally Invasive Education—a philosophy built around the notion that unsupervised poor Indian children, without the benefit of English but armed with a computer and Internet connection, could develop basic computer literacy equal to the average office assistant in the West.

It also inspired Vikas Swarup to write the novel that later became the movie Slumdog Millionaire. KEEP READING