Healthcare

Critics who applaud violence against executives like Brian Thompson misunderstand how the healthcare system operates — and seem content to wallow in those adolescent misapprehensions.

Typhoid was ultimately conquered not by jails but by sanitation, hygiene, and antibiotics.

Conti, Frank, and Cutler shatter the common myths that the United States has “largely unregulated prices” for medical care or is “one of the only developed countries where health care is left mostly to the free market.”

Former president Donald Trump is pitching himself to voters as the antidote to the Biden administration’s inflationary policies. That will require ditching the interventionism his running mate has previously championed.

Virtually all discussion of health care policy today avoids explicit reference to underlying principles.

Declining reimbursement rates, on top of losses in purchasing power, result in reduced access to care, as some physicians have limited the number of Medicare patients they accept or have stopped accepting new Medicare patients altogether.

The goal of all of it was to keep natural immunity from ruining the chance for the mRNA shots to save the day.

When government asserts control over your health care, it creates opportunities for low‐​quality providers to lobby for subsidies and regulations that protect them from competition from high‐​quality producers.

Seemingly out of nowhere, people who the public had largely ignored, the public health bureaucrats, all united to tell the executives in charge – mayors, governors, and the president – that the only way to deal with a respiratory virus was to scrap freedom and the Bill of Rights. 

Why should Canadians embrace private health care as a moral alternative to medicare, as citizens of most other countries do?

Biden’s proposal would eliminate consumer protections, throw sick patients out of their health insurance, and leave them to face sky-high medical bills without insurance for up to one year.

The Covid response ruined everything the world identified with America: freedom, rights, decentralism, commerce, individual liberty, and bravery in the face of trial. Governments together with all the commanding heights betrayed all those values. We need to know why. We need to know how. We need to know who.

FDA Policies Keep People Sick and Create a False Sense of Security

There’s no Democratic or Republican way to promote quality. There is only what works, and that’s letting consumers reward quality by making their own health decisions.

The denialists are those who actively promoted and enforced lockdowns, and now implausibly deny that anything happened at all.

Sanders gets an “A” for passion, but an “F” in compassion. 

The fact that people would even think to equate Merck losing government business to coercion shows just how much government dominates health care in the United States.

Adopting socialized medicine – “universal health care” – would not remedy the well-documented gap in U.S. life expectancy.

Some doctors aren’t afraid to make the case for freedom, both in medical care and in all other aspects of our lives. One of them is Dr. Miguel Faria.

The lockdowns did not improve health outcomes. They did devastate economic outcomes.

If you express any misgivings about the covid policies, people are quick to retort: how do you propose we should have handled the pandemic instead? Three experts came up with an answer, which they put into writing and co-signed in the Massachusetts town of Great Barrington on October 4, 2020.

Fauci could have used his time in Congress to give a basic explanation. He did not. He chose to spread irrational fear instead. 

This isn’t market failure. It is the result of government regulation.

We cannot allow that to happen.

Thanks to government, insulin is hard to get.

The insulin pricing problem is a result of the government regulating business.

The health-care market has failed to produce high-quality, low-cost medicine for two reasons: consumers are insulated from the cost of medical care by third-party payers, and information on the performance of competing physicians is not available.

When bureaucrats speak of their stakeholders, they mean their employees and the industry they manage, not the citizens.

The CDC’s great lockdown, mandate, and unaccountable bureaucratic “follow the science” people control experiment was an enormous flop. Abolish the CDC.

Two years later the CDC has embraced the Great Barrington Declaration rather than doing a “quick and devastating takedown” as Francis Collins and Anthony Fauci called for the day after its release.

Government is already driving insulin prices sky‐​high. Further intervention would make matters worse.

The bulk of Dr. Deborah Birx’s book is a brag fest about how she kept subverting the White House’s push to open up the economy – that is, allow people to exercise their rights and freedoms.