Richard E. Ralston

Richard E. Ralston is Executive Director of Americans for Free Choice in Medicine.

Free Markets are Good Medicine

Those who prefer government management of medicine have a wider agenda: they hate the idea of a free market in medicine because they hate the idea of free markets in anything.

Health Care Independence on the Fourth of July

Health Care Independence on the Fourth of July

Two hundred years ago Thomas Jefferson sent Lewis and Clark to explore the vast spaces of North America from St. Louis to the Pacific Ocean. Jefferson understood the enormous challenges for the growth of knowledge and liberty on a continental scale. These were the...

Get Ready for the Vitamin Police

Get Ready for the Vitamin Police

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is now seeking to expand its considerable powers into the regulation of vitamins and nutritional supplements. The FDA has evidently discovered that Americans, after centuries of experience doing so, cannot now be counted on to...

The New Medicare Program: A Prescription for Disaster

The New Medicare Program: A Prescription for Disaster

At a cost of $400 billion over 10 years, Congressional Republicans have agreed in Conference Committee--with the enthusiastic encouragement of a Republican President--to the greatest expansion of government in two generations. This new Medicare program can only result...

Health By Government: Even Worse than Death and Taxes

Health By Government: Even Worse than Death and Taxes

It is insulting enough when the government celebrates your death by taxing away your wealth or your business. Much more damaging are the taxes on the money you need to stay alive. Medicare legislation now pending before a conference committee in Washington would...

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