The New York Times Reveals the Horrors of Capitalism – By Showing China’s State-Run Hospitals
The New York Times released a 10-minute video last month entitled “How Capitalism Ruined China’s Health Care System.” The video […]
Science & Medical
Single-Payer – John Stossel
Democrats just won control of the House of Representatives. One of their big issues, single-payer health care, in which government […]
Government-Run Health Care Cannot Deliver What the Politicians Promise
Advocates of single-payer health care-like Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., with his “Medicare for All” legislation-suggest Americans would enjoy a health […]
Science of Sleuthing – Full Measure with Sharyl Attkisson
When a notorious serial killer was arrested earlier this year thanks to the DNA of a relative, it opened the […]
Ethanol Is Terrible for Health and the Environment, but Government Keeps Backing It
When the elected officials and bureaucrats who run a government want to stack the deck in favor of a politically […]
If American Healthcare Kills, European Healthcare Kills More
The moral argument for universal healthcare is simple: more people receiving medical care means fewer preventable deaths. If universal healthcare, […]
This Doctor Is Making Heart Surgery Accessible to the Poor by Embracing Mass Production
Health care is a delicate topic. So delicate, in fact, that comparing it to something as impersonal as the mass […]
How Jailing Drug Users Increases Opioid Overdoses
The standard view of the opioid epidemic blames pharmaceutical companies and doctors for excessive prescribing. An alternate view blames government for […]
Truth Is the First Casualty of Statism
Senator Hiram Johnson is credited with having said during World War I, “The first casualty, when war comes, is truth,” and this […]
Why a Facelift Costs Less Than a Knee Replacement
Between 1998 and 2017 prices for “Medical Care Services” in the US (as measured by the BLS’s CPI for Medical Care […]
The Myth of ‘Unaffordable’ Health Insurance Just Won’t Die
The Myth of ‘Unaffordable’ Health Insurance Just Won’t Die When the 20th century dawned, automobiles were rarer than were exceedingly […]
Is Health Care a Human Right?
Is Health Care a Human Right? Is there a right to health care? Most libertarians and classical liberals would say […]
Single-Payer Health Care Would Be Even Worse than Obamacare
Single-Payer Health Care The late, great Nobel laureate economist Milton Friedman said it best: “There’s no such thing as a […]
Doctors Opting Out of Insurance
Doctors Opting Out of Insurance One of the most profound changes brought about by the Affordable Care Act is that […]
The Scandalous Truth about Obamacare Is Laid Bare
It’s not just that Obamacare is financially unsustainable. More seriously, it is intellectually unsustainable, even though this truth has been […]
In Defense of Free to Choose Medicine
Introductory note from FEE President Lawrence W. Reed: On August 18, we published my article entitled “Herpes Cure Needs Free to […]