Healthcare

As you raise a pen to sign your tax return this year, you will undoubtedly regret that the United States Treasury is taking so much of your income. You should also ask why so much of the income you have left is spent on health care and health insurance. The two...

The prescription drug benefit is a monster that should be killed before it is hatched.

The Presidential Election in 2024 might hinge on the present health care crisis, but none of the candidates have been able to propose any solutions. The band-aid since the last Democratic Administration (2016) has been three increases in the "temporary" health care...

The choice facing Americans is stark: the rights-respecting free market of capitalism, where goods and services are produced in abundance, including health care–or the chronic disasters of socialism, where thousands die because of continuous shortages.

Americans of all political parties need to give close attention to health care issues in this election year. Regardless of how they intend to vote, they need to understand that health care is the primary cause of increased government spending. It confronts Americans...

At their National Convention, Republicans will complain of John Kerry's habit of complicating complex issues with even more complex and mutually exclusive solutions. On the issue of health care, however, the Democratic Platform has clear and straight-forward...

Americans who care about their health care need to pay close attention in an election year to politicians of all parties who seem bent on becoming much more involved in the details of what health care will be allowed and at what cost. Neither the Democratic nor...

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...

When George W. Bush further socializes medical care, he not only harms patients; he also harms the case for capitalism.

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...

Adding prescription drug coverage to Medicare, as Congress is poised to do, is merely more socialism — it will neither help seniors nor is its passage likely to gain their votes.

The Medicare II bill (my name for it) that Congress is about to pass is an unmitigated disaster. The bill contains provisions for the largest expansion of socialized health care in this nation's history. It essentially nationalizes prescription drugs for the elderly,...

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...

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...