Do We Have a Free-Market Medical System?
Many honest medical professionals are trapped in a system that can more accurately be described as a crony capitalist nightmare.
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The Tuskegee Experiment at 45: Have Public-Health Programs Been Vindicated?
Public health officials have a long history of ignoring basic human rights.
UK’s National Health Service Moves to Cut Healthcare for Smokers and the Obese
To cut government expenses, the NHS has declared that smokers and the obese will be limited in the healthcare procedures they're allowed to receive.
The Swiss Way of Health
Switzerland employs an insurance and voucher based healthcare system that is primarily private, and highly effective.
Big Pharma Makes Drugs that Please Regulators, Not Customers
In a free market, consumers hold the power to punish producers for pushing dangerous products. But today, the FDA has short-circuited that market.
America’s History of Self Medicating: Opioids versus Alcohol
No drug czar is needed, and the DEA can go home as well. People will self-medicate one way or another, with the government's blessing or without.
Healthcare in the Crosshairs
The emergence of market solutions in the face of relentless government interference in healthcare is a very hopeful trend.
Can Trump and Rand Paul Save Healthcare?
Trump's new healthcare order is a good first step. But now new providers must overcome barriers imposed by decades of federal meddling.
Yellow Journalism and Cheech and Chong: Drug Policy in the 70s
Chris Calton explores US drug policy between the Nixon and Reagan Administrations.
