Michael F. Cannon 🇮🇪🇺🇸

“Influential health care wonk at the libertarian @CatoInstitute”-WP @CatoHealth Bsky: @ mfcannon 🧵: @ michaelfcannon

[Michael F. Cannon 🇮🇪🇺🇸 @mfcannon]

Think of your least favorite presidential candidate. Now imagine s/he wins. Doesn’t limiting government power seem like a good idea?

[Michael F. Cannon 🇮🇪🇺🇸 @mfcannon]

@EvertRauwendaal Should I not quote the guy who said the right thing because he put it the way he did?

[Michael F. Cannon 🇮🇪🇺🇸 @mfcannon]

“The United States should finally do the right thing: legalize all drugs.”

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[Michael F. Cannon 🇮🇪🇺🇸 @mfcannon]

@drewelgato @adv4commhealth @CatoInstitute What makes it out of control, exactly?

[Advocates for Community Health @adv4commhealth]

NEW EPISODE LIVE! @CatoInstitute's @mfcannon joins Amanda Pears Kelly for an unvarnished debate on the future of healthcare. 

From 340B to Medicare cash transfers, they examine the healthcare safety net through a market-driven lens.

Read our breakdown and get the full extended episode:
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[Michael F. Cannon 🇮🇪🇺🇸 @mfcannon]

@JessicaBRiedl “We”

[Cato Institute @CatoInstitute]

Regulation drives up health insurance premiums.

In 2018, Trump freed consumers to buy comprehensive coverage at premiums 60 percent below the lowest-price Obamacare plans. Biden rescinded Trump’s rule. Re-issuing it is not enough. Congress must make relief permanent, argue Cato’s @mfcannon and @dr4liberty.

Check out their policy ideas on how to make health care more affordable in Cato’s Handbook on Affordability: https://t.co/UjLKjq2sIt

[Josh Gottlieb @GottliebEcon]

Thanks for such kind words @mfcannon!

It was great to write this paper with Sean, and you're absolutely right that @heidilwilliams_, Jeff Kling + @TimothyTTaylor are an amazing editorial team.

[Michael F. Cannon 🇮🇪🇺🇸 @mfcannon]

Someone finally wrote the overview of physician/clinician supply econ that I've been dying to read.

Congrats and thank you to @GottliebEcon, Sean Nicholson, plus JEP/@AEAjournals editors @heidilwilliams_, @USCBO's Jeffrey Kling, and @TimothyTTaylor.

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[Michael F. Cannon 🇮🇪🇺🇸 @mfcannon]

@TopherSpiro @CitizenCohn @amprog Still waiting to hear back from you.

[Cato Institute @CatoInstitute]

Short-term health plans can cost up to 66% less than the cheapest Obamacare plan because they're exempt from its costliest regulations. Trump's 2018 rule proved this relief works—and that the next president can undo such a regulation. Congress should make Trump’s 2018 rule permanent, notes Cato’s @mfcannon.

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[Michael F. Cannon 🇮🇪🇺🇸 @mfcannon]

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[Michael F. Cannon 🇮🇪🇺🇸 @mfcannon]

@neoavatara Maybe he’s awful. IDK. But his response in that clip was ~95% correct.

(COI: I have a friend in a similar predicament to his.)

[Michael F. Cannon 🇮🇪🇺🇸 @mfcannon]

@neoavatara So you don’t live in a bubble?

[Michael F. Cannon 🇮🇪🇺🇸 @mfcannon]

@neoavatara Also, #BanThePassiveVoice.

[Michael F. Cannon 🇮🇪🇺🇸 @mfcannon]

@neoavatara We all live in bubbles. He asked for data. At least in this clip, he asked if someone is has evidence that his data set (bubble) is unrepresentative. Not saying I’d ultimately agree with him but that clip makes me adjust upward (somewhat) the probability that I trust him.

[Michael F. Cannon 🇮🇪🇺🇸 @mfcannon]

@RealJoeGrogan If I could buy Republicans for how much they talk about reforming Medicare, and sell them for how much they talk about expanding Medicare, I would be a wealthy man.

[Michael F. Cannon 🇮🇪🇺🇸 @mfcannon]

So if I’m hearing you, the solution is for Medicare to spend money more freely?

I missed the part where you advocate letting patients choose—and pay the marginal cost of—health plans that cover vs. don’t cover what you recommend.

[Joe Grogan @RealJoeGrogan]

Medicare’s TAVR restrictions have outlived any justification.

After 25+ clinical trials, 1M+ registry patients, and years of proven results, the evidence is clear: seniors need faster access to lifesaving heart care.

CMS should end the red tape and put patients first.

[Michael F. Cannon 🇮🇪🇺🇸 @mfcannon]

“Politicize” is a verb in the English language that means “to impose values that aren’t mine.”

[Michael F. Cannon 🇮🇪🇺🇸 @mfcannon]

The administration can re-issue the 2018 Trump rule that Biden rescinded in 2024. It can even improve on that rule.

But any relief it provides would disappear with the next Democratic administration.

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