Governor Ron DeSantis has proven it: it is actually possible for a politician to wise up and do the right thing. In a sweeping order announced September 25, the governor has opened up the entire economy.
Healthcare
Abolish Agencies and Repeal Regulations That Hamper Medicine
Abolish the FDA. Repeal medical licensing.
Governments Don’t Have Magic Wands To Ward off Asymmetric Information
The kind of reasoning that underpins the tired old asymmetric information bogeyman in health care falls straight into the behavioral symmetry between market participants and policy makers that is a core contribution of modern public choice economics: it is not believable to submit that governments have magic wands.
Canada’s Government-Run Health Care System Crumbled under COVID-19
As for Medicare for All, the COVID-19 crisis in Canada has shown the brutal consequences of government-run health care: shortages just when you need care the most.
Let People Try New Drugs
We need new drugs to fight COVID-19 and other diseases. But our government’s approval process makes that too hard.
FDA is a Demonstration of The Failure of Government (“Universal”) Regulated Medicine
The COVID-19 crisis is the result of decades of FDA rule.
Why Does No Stockpile Adequate to Combat COVID-19 Exist?
Because nobody had an incentive to stockpile PPE or other medical equipment.
Deregulation Can Reduce The Costs of The American Health Care System
Three simple reforms: (1) posted prices for procedures; (2) Goodman-esque health savings accounts and high-deductible insurance; (3) age rather than community rating.
Government Regulation of Medicine Created The Coronavirus Pandemic
Why weren’t there enough Wuhan Corona Virus (COVID-19) tests? Because our government insists on control of medical innovation.
Red Tape vs. Your Health: How Regulation Botched Coronavirus Testing
Highly restrictive government regulations have had the unintended consequence of shutting down tests that could detect outbreaks and save lives.
COVID-19 Response: Why Should the U.S. Copy China Rather Than South Korea?
The South Korean government has brought about superior outcomes than the much heavier handed, authoritarian measures of China, Italy, the U.S., and virtually every other afflicted nation.
Individual Rights vs. Statist Wishes: So-Called “Right to Health Care”
In order for government to provide medical services to someone who cannot afford it, it must use intimidation, threats, and coercion to take the earnings of another American to provide that service.
Certificate of Need (CON) Laws Reduce Competition in the Medical Industry
In health care, and all fields, it’s better to see what competition can do rather than letting the government and its cronies decide what to allow.
Judging Elizabeth Warren’s Health Care Plan
Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., wants "Medicare for All," as does Sen. Bernie Sanders, D-Vt., her self-described "Democratic socialist" rival. Unlike Sanders, however, Warren claims she can finance her plan by raising taxes only on the superrich. The middle class,...
Third Party Payments: One Problem With the U.S. Medical Care System
The pursuit of one form or another of third-party payment for health care services has removed most incentives for consumers to be careful about how they spend money.
Reality Stands in the Way of Socialist Healthcare Fantasies
Ask every politician promising to take over your medical care what they are doing for the veterans now in their care, or for those veterans who have died while languishing on lists while waiting for it.
The Dirty Secret Behind Elizabeth Warren’s Medicare-For-All
Elizabeth Warren has vehemently refused to say if the middle class would see its taxes go up to pay for M4A or how she would pay for this.
The Federal Death Agency (FDA)
The path to genetic cures and radical life extension begins with the abolition of that Servant of Death: the FDA.
FDA Policies Kill
Patients suffer and die when the FDA disapproves of or delays the approval of a drug that is both safe and effective.
Vape Wars: Pro-Smoking Government’s Demonization of Vaping and E-cigarettes
Americans who might make the rational choice to pick e-cigarettes over burning tobacco are now more likely to be killed by conventional cigarettes.
“Single-Payer” Health Care Socialism
People say America has free-market health care, but we don’t, and we haven’t since World War II. Government and government-subsidized insurance companies currently spend most of America’s health dollars.
Something About Medical Care We Can Defend
The end of the “mandate” or tax to force individuals to enroll in ObamaCare will not restore the lost private insurance that President Obama falsely promised we could keep, but it has ended a gross injustice.
Pro-Capitalist Ideas Can Reverse Out-of-Control Government Spending and Taxing
The world of plunder can be replaced with a community of free people pursuing mutually beneficial peaceful production.
The Government Boot on Your Doctor's Neck
We live in an age when the secretary of the Interior and the White House press secretary proudly and publicly proclaim that they will keep their "boot on the neck" of an oil company. This new manifestation of "hope" and "change" is ominous at a time when the...
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