“Nobody spends somebody else’s money as carefully as he spends his own.” — Milton Friedman
Here’s the dirty little secret Washington doesn’t want to talk about: the real problem with American healthcare isn’t a lack of money, or insurance, or government “solutions.” It’s that nothing in the system — from
As of 2025, about 2.1 billion people—a full quarter of the global population—still cook and heat
their homes with wood, charcoal, dung, or crop waste. The World Health Organization estimates
3.2 million people die prematurely every year from the household air pollution this creates, with
women and children the most
Every generation rediscovers the same truth: happiness and prosperity don’t come from government programs, lottery tickets, or waiting for someone else to fix your problems. They come from freedom, discipline, gratitude, and growth.
These twelve simple rules aren’t magic formulas. They’re reminders—short, sharp, and proven—that build both a better life
A mother sits at home, worried about her 13-year-old daughter’s worsening knee pain. She imagines specialists, MRIs, and even surgery—and the overwhelming bills that would follow. What she doesn’t expect is that the right question from the right doctor could change everything.
In young athletes, especially girls, knee pain is
By any measure, health care in the United States is too expensive. Premiums are set to rise again in 2026. National filings already project increases of nearly twenty percent for many Affordable Care Act marketplace plans. Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Alabama, for example, has warned of a 19.3
America’s kids are more connected than ever—but not to their own bodies.
President just reinstated the President’s Council on Sports, Fitness, and Nutrition, reviving one of the most iconic benchmarks in American schools: the Presidential Fitness Test. For decades, this test was a rite of passage—equal
Let’s be honest, what we call “health insurance” is a linguistic fraud. It’s neither about health, nor is it insurance in the classic economic sense. It’s a bloated, bureaucratic cost-shifting mechanism that fails at its most basic goals: keeping people healthy, aligning risk with price, and incentivizing good behavior. Instead,
Let’s be honest: while high prices, wait times, and red tape do create real burdens for millions of Americans, they are symptoms—not the root cause—of our health care system’s deeper failure. Those are symptoms. The underlying disease? A system of incentives so backwards, it pays for illness and penalizes wellness.