Health & Medicine
Everything from the morality of eating cookies to the solvency of Medicare.
- What You Don’t Know Can Hurt You Thomas P. Miller 05/27/2009
- There is a strong association between educational attainment and health. That’s one more reason to empower Americans, not Washington, with greater ownership of their healthcare.
- Consider the Source Roger Bate and Karen Porter 05/19/2009
- A recent case reveals that it is not only generic firms from middle-income countries that have problems with good manufacturing practice.
- What is Driving Rising Healthcare Costs? Dustin Chambers 05/18/2009
- Our healthcare system is in trouble today because we have consistently ignored market-oriented solutions and instead sought out policies based on public finance and top-down regulation.
- Decoding the Use of Gene Patents John E. Calfee 05/15/2009
- In good news, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has resisted researchers' overreaching in their patenting of genes, and researchers’ work is seldom compromised by patents.
- The Straw Men of Social Security Andrew G. Biggs 05/14/2009
- Social Security is the largest single spending program of the federal budget. Its costs relative to its tax base will rise by 26 percent over the next two decades and it is badly in need of reform.
- Busting Healthcare Myths Robert Goldberg 05/11/2009
- To fix American healthcare, it's important to avoid some common misconceptions.
- Globalization, Pandemics, and Preparation Roger Bate 04/28/2009
- Why do rich nations elect to fund global health campaigns to tackle problems with no supra-national element at all, such as obesity or smoking?
- Prescriptions for a Better HHS Tevi Troy 04/20/2009
- The world of biomedical innovation faces numerous challenges, especially cost and uncertainty.
- Nursing India’s Drug Market Back to Health Roger Bate 04/16/2009
- Regional and local officials are taking the initiative to stop the deadly and odious trade of counterfeit and substandard drugs in India.
- Obama Healthcare 2.0 Thomas P. Miller 04/02/2009
- The president’s opening offer of healthcare at a teaser rate fails to deliver what we actually need, value, and can afford.