Goodman Institute

02/18/2026

Ed Crane, RIP -

When the Cato Institute moved from San Francisco to Washington DC in 1981, I worried. When think tank people get close to politicians, all too often it’s the think tanks, not the politicians, who change the way they think. That was never true of Ed Crane’s libertarian Cato Institute, however. My...

02/04/2026

What Trump Gets Right About TrumpRx -

Writing in the Wall Street Journal, John Goodman says that Trump’s push for direct-to-consumer drug sales is a reform that is long overdue.

01/25/2026

What We Should Be Eating -

To our knowledge, the Goodman Institute is the only public policy think tank that has called for the complete inversion of the Food Pyramid, and we first did it under the Biden administration. In his latest post, John Goodman reviews the food wars – going back more than 160 years – and concludes...

01/17/2026

Trump's Health Reform -

Pete Sessions and John Goodman give details on how Trump’s approach to health reform might work. People would be able to buy insurance that meets their needs. If a medical need arises that is not covered by their chosen plan but is covered by Obamacare plans, people would be able to switch to a si...

01/14/2026

Goodman on PBS -

01/05/2026

How “Woke” Thinking Leads to Antisemitism -

Where you find the most woke thinking in America, you also find the most vocal and visible display of antisemitism – especially on college campuses. What makes woke "woke" is the tendency to pick out a single characteristic (such as skin color) and make that the defining characteristic of everyo...

01/02/2026

Come See John C. Goodman Speak Live! -

You're invited to come see Dr. John C. Goodman speak on Monday, January 19th at Park City Club in Dallas, TX.  Dr. Goodman will be presenting "Health Care Policy and Insurance in America" at a luncheon for The Public Affairs Luncheon Club at 11:30am on the 19th of this month.  The luncheon and pro...

12/12/2025

Resolving the Health Policy Impasse in Congress, Part III -

Rule 3: Eliminate public policies that give people perverse incentives to raise costs and reduce quality. One of the reasons the health care system fails to produce high-quality, low-cost care is that it is in no one’s interest to do that. To the contrary, perverse incentives encourage us to do th...

12/08/2025

Resolving the Health Policy Impasse in Congress -

Whenever there is head-to-head competition to meet the same needs, markets routinely outperform government. For that reason, in Part I and Part II John Goodman argues that we should rely on the private marketplace to meet all the health care and health insurance needs it can meet. The role of govern...

11/11/2025

The Case For Medicare Advantage -

A lot of doctors and some conservatives don’t like Medicare Advantage. And there are definitely some bad actors. However, this is the only place in the health care system where we could see the emergence of market-based developments that right-of-center folks like. But before we can institute free...

10/27/2025

Why Can’t the Democrats “Find Themselves”? -

Democrats like to think of themselves as the creators and protectors of social insurance. Yet, there are two things to know about the safety net.

10/18/2025

How to Reopen the Government -

1. Codify the Trump 1 regulations for the short-term health insurance market. 2. Let people who buy into that market have one-half the tax credit Obamacare offers. 3. Let employers buy their employees into that market. 4. Continue the (Obamacare) enhanced subsidies for one year. 5. During that ...