Health & Medicine
Everything from the morality of eating cookies to the solvency of Medicare.
- What the States’ Experience with Mandates Should Tell Us about Universal Healthcare Coverage Scott Harrington 08/11/2009
- If Americans want mandated healthcare coverage, it would be possible for individual states to provide it to them. But almost none of them do.
- Should We Fight Today’s War on Obesity Like the Last War on Tobacco? Thomas P. Miller 08/07/2009
- Moderation in one’s personal habits should be matched by moderation (or at least more humility) in public policy.
- What Do Vitamins and Fish Oil Tell Us about Drug Research? John E. Calfee 08/06/2009
- There is a second world of drug research, a world in which patents do not exist and for-profit research is permanently moribund. Its history should stop ‘reformers’ in their tracks.
- Trial Lawyer Medicare Bonanza Averted — For Now James K. Glassman 08/05/2009
- A stealth amendment to the healthcare bill would enrich trial lawyers and could pave the way for potentially massive class action suits.
- Healthcare Dreams, Healthcare Realities Thomas P. Miller 07/16/2009
- President Obama is not the first chief executive to discover that it was much easier to promise grand dreams on the campaign trail than to reconcile them with stubborn realities.
- A Healthcare Free Lunch? Tim Worstall 06/19/2009
- Will the government taking over responsibility for healthcare reduce the total cost of it?
- The Problem with the Biggest Tax Break in America Arnold Kling 06/15/2009
- How can we cut back on employer-provided health insurance and at the same time reduce the number of households that are uninsured? We must reconceive the very concept of health insurance.
- The National Kidney Foundation’s Bizarre Logic Sally Satel 06/11/2009
- The public is receptive to the idea of rewarding organ donors. It’s time to leverage that receptivity.
- Shooting the Messenger: CBO in the Crosshairs Andrew G. Biggs 06/04/2009
- The official scorekeeper for health reform legislation in Congress has stated that the overhaul proposed by the administration could increase costs. What to do? Shoot the messenger.
- A Public Health Disaster in the Making John E. Calfee 06/03/2009
- Congress is poised to pass one of the worst public health laws ever conceived.