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Mises Institute at the 2017 Free Market Medical Association Conference

August 17, 2017 - August 19, 2017

Skirvin Hilton, Oklahoma City

The Free Market Medical Association hosts its annual conference this year from August 17th-19th at the historic Skirvin Hilton in Oklahoma City, and the Mises Institute will b

Does Britain Have the World’s Best Health System? Only If You Ignore Outcomes

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07/20/2017 George Pickering

Once said to be Britain's national religion, at this point the National Health Service might be more accurately described as Britain’s national cult.

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To Fix Healthcare, We Need to Repeal a Lot More than Obamacare

Tags: Bureaucracy and Regulation, Health, Taxes and Spending

07/18/2017 Ryan McMaken

The focus on Obamacare as the source of all our health-care woes has distracted us from the real foundations of the healthcare mess.

Here’s an Easy Way to Add Some Market Competition Back into Healthcare

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07/02/2017 Mark Thornton

The current healthcare system destroys price sensitivity for both consumers and producers. We need reforms that will force prices down.

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Week in Review: July 1, 2017

Tags: Money and Banking, Decentralization and Secession, Health, Labor and Wages, Legal System

06/30/2017 Mises Institute

Janet Yellen and her colleagues continue to ignore the consequences of their own actions,

Government Medicine: Court Declares Child Should Die Rather Than Receive Privately-Funded Health Care

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06/29/2017 Ryan McMaken

Once you're inside the state's healthcare system, you may find it's impossible to get out. Even if you're seeking only privately funded treatment.

Did Obamacare Really Save Lives?

Tags: Health, Poverty, U.S. History

06/29/2017 Robert P. Murphy

The actual data do not support the breathless claims that rolling back ObamaCare will literally kill many thousands of Americans.

Republican Healthcare Plan Fails the “Jimmy Kimmel Test”

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06/26/2017 Ron Paul

Government health care creates shortages while driving up prices and preventing access to critical services.

Terry McAuliffe’s Fuzzy Math on Gun Homicides

Tags: Health, Legal System

06/15/2017 Ryan McMaken

Governor Terry McAuliffe likes to use made-up numbers about "gun violence."

Behind America’s Skyrocketing Overdose Death Rates

Tags: Health, Legal System

06/09/2017 Alice Salles

Thanks to over-use of prescription painkillers, many patients are becoming addicts who must later turn to illegal drugs to get their next fix.

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The Mises Institute is a non-profit organization that exists to promote teaching and research in the Austrian School of economics, individual freedom, honest history, and international peace, in the tradition of Ludwig von Mises and Murray N. Rothbard.

Non-political, non-partisan, and non-PC, we advocate a radical shift in the intellectual climate, away from statism and toward a private property order. We believe that our foundational ideas are of permanent value, and oppose all efforts at compromise, sellout, and amalgamation of these ideas with fashionable political, cultural, and social doctrines inimical to their spirit.

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