Health & Medicine
Everything from the morality of eating cookies to the solvency of Medicare.
- The Family Healthcare Budget Squeeze Christopher J. Conover 11/14/2011
- Healthcare will overtake shelter within five years to become the single largest category of consumption. How has this happened?
- Is Medicare a Ponzi Scheme? Christopher J. Conover 10/25/2011
- Many retirees feel they have ‘paid’ for benefits through their payroll taxes. This is much closer to being true for Social Security than it is for Medicare.
- Entitled to Leisure? Christopher J. Conover 09/13/2011
- The growing length of retirement for men in part reflects a decline in the number of years spent working. Is this a good thing?
- A Lethal Subsidy Roger Bate and Richard Tren 09/08/2011
- By trying to do too much, the disease-fighting Global Fund has run into problems. It is spending public funds in a way that is perverting the market for malaria drugs and could do more harm than good.
- Paper and Plastic: When Political Ideology Trumps Sound Science Jon Entine 09/01/2011
- Scientific institutions around the world reject bans on BPA. So why are politicians imposing them?
- Feeling Poorer? Healthcare Bears Some Blame Christopher J. Conover 08/11/2011
- A look at what happens when health spending rises much faster than either national income or household wealth.
- The Debt Deal Will Undo ObamaCare Joseph Antos 08/04/2011
- Here’s how the debt deal could trim the massive expansion of health spending created in last year’s healthcare law.
- Government Share of Healthcare Is Far Bigger Than Advertised Christopher J. Conover 08/02/2011
- The conventional ways of cataloguing and reporting health spending significantly understate the government share of health spending.
- The Compassion Trap James V. Delong 07/29/2011
- Governments are bad at compassion, in part because it is a candle to power-seeking moths. The heavy lifting of compassion belongs in the private sector, where it is divorced from the impulse to impose continually greater levels of control.
- Health Is the Health of the State Christopher J. Conover 07/19/2011
- Between 1966 and 2007, the entire increase in the size of government relative to the economy resulted from growth in tax-financed health spending.