Watchdog.org Podcast

By Jason Hart, Katie Watson and Ben Yount | Watchdog Radio Code Blue is Watchdog Radio’s weekly look at heath issues, ranging from the latest public health debates to small government views on health care reform. Medicaid and Medicare are breaking the budgets of states and the federal government, but there are other options out there. Is Obamacare the best we can do? This week, Ben Yount sits down for an interview with Adam Smith from the Mercatus Center (no, not THAT Adam Smith) to talk about his recent article on the so-called "baptists, bootleggers and televangelists" that helped to turn government-run health insurance into a reality. Then, Hart and Watson discuss how the unique combination of baptists (the "true-believers" who want a certain government policy) and the bootleggers (those who benefit from government sitting up artificial limits on competition) combine to make government policy in other areas of the political sphere.