In this three-lecture course, professor Mark Thornton will explain how prohibition has changed not only the market for marijuana, but also the characteristics of the drug itself.
Why the huge price increases associated with the ACA? Obamacare has too much risk and too little population of healthy individuals to bear the cost.
Some health-industry interest groups think you have too much freedom when it comes to contact lenses.
The cronyist American Medical Association has forced doctors to choose between protecting "the profession" and protecting their patients.
Some medical facilities are opting out of the whole health insurance bureaucracy to make care less expensive.
The US government will outlaw yet another plant that has long been used for herbal remedies, magically transforming users into criminals overnight.
For decades, governments have been manipulating our views of what medical schools are, and what they should be.
There is no bright line that divides the allegedly "free-market" US from the "socialist" welfare states of Western Europe.
Americans enjoy one of the world's highest incomes levels. But their fondness for spending means they have have relatively low levels of wealth.
The larger government becomes, the more important it is to have it on your side.
