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Mental Health Is in Crisis. What Is the Answer

WEBThe US is still in a state of emergency for Covid-19 and monkeypox. However, the country has another longstanding and quickly worsening public health

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What the FDA and NIH Have to Say About the Vaccine

WEBFact-checkers screening for “misinformation,” please note: everything that follows are direct quotes from the FDA Authorization Letter for COMIRNATY, the FDA …

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A Review of D. Eric Schansberg’s “The Economics of Health Care …

WEBThe notion that everyone must have health insurance to acquire medical care has reached such a level of obsession that it almost deserves its own entry in the …

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Healthcare as a Complex System John C. Goodman

WEBJohn C. Goodman is a Research Fellow at the Independent Institute, President of the Goodman Institute for Public Policy Research, and author of the …

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Don’t Let the FDA Tell You What’s Healthy Raymond J. March

WEBA glance at America’s growing waistline shows closing gyms and limiting travel away from home to combat the pandemic has worsened public health in America. …

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The Market for Healthcare Risk: How the Current System Biases …

WEBIn 1980, Census Bureau statistics showed that less than 1 percent of the population had been denied health insurance because of a health condition. Moreover, …

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Medical Apps: Improving Healthcare on a Global Scale

WEBA recent survey of physician wait times in the United States found the average wait time for a new patient to see a physician in 15 metropolitan areas has …

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Did Healthcare Spending Really Return to Pre-Pandemic Levels

WEBRaymond J. March • Wednesday, January 24, 2024. 2022 was hardly a year of fiscal austerity. Monetary expansion from years before resulted in 8 percent inflation. …

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Insulin Price-Caps: A Solution or a Recipe for Rationing

WEBWhen health insurers pay more of the costs, they tighten policies. Capping insulin prices at $35 nationwide will easily generate such a response. While some …

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What Medical Tourism Tells Us about Our Healthcare System

WEBMost prices were between $10,000 and $12,000, and the average was about $12,000. [2] The implications of all this are staggering. Many US hospitals are able to …

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Healthcare and the Cost of Non-Price Rationing

WEBThe orthodox approach to health policy is obsessively focused on the burdens of price barriers to care, and at the same time inordinately oblivious to the …

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The FDA Should Stay Away from Laboratory Developed Tests

WEBIn healthcare, tests are our eyes into the body's secretive operations. Whether being swabbed for COVID-19, tested for a genetic condition, taken a drug test, …

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As the Opioid Epidemic Worsens, We Must Look at Free Market …

WEBPrior to covid-19, it was the opioid epidemic that worried U.S. officials, with reports showing that the abuse of opioids nationwide was contributing to increased …

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Stunning Results from California John C. Goodman

WEBI’m going to summarize in a single paragraph a debate that has been raging in health policy for the past two decades. On one side is what I call the health policy …

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Health, Wealth, and Liberty in the COVID-19 Era

WEBAmericans in many states are protesting the government mandates that require people to “shelter in place,” prohibit traveling, and shut down businesses. The …

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President Biden Faces Longstanding Challenge to Lower Insulin …

WEBPresident Biden seems comfortable using the executive branch’s power to push his agenda. As of February 2, 2021 (less than two weeks after taking office), he …

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Capping Insulin Copays Won’t Cure Insulin Price Woes

WEBIn 1996, a vial of Humalog (roughly a month’s supply) cost patients about $25 per vial. By 2017, the anti-diabetes medication cost nearly $275. Insulin prices have only increased …

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More Acclaim for Higgs: New York Times and Elsewhere David J.

WEBArticles acclaiming the devastating analysis by Independent Institute Senior Fellow Robert Higgs in showing why federal government controls and …

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New York Times Wrong about Government Childcare Delivery

WEBWhen it comes to government-run childcare and preschool, the delivery is worth all the labor pains—so says University of Massachusetts, Amherst, economics …

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Was the Star of a New Movie About Profiling, Profiled

WEBAs candidate for irony of the year award, note this news item wherein Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan was detained Friday by U.S. immigration officials …

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Out of the Mouths of Investment Managers Mary L. G. Theroux

WEBWarren Buffett's annual 'Letter to Shareholders' may be more famous, but I'd put this 'Periodic Overview' from our friend, investment manager Roger King, up against …

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The Plastic Bag Racket: Banning single-use plastic bags doesn’t …

WEBSingle-use plastic bag bans have been all the rage for the past 20 years or so, but, as is often the case with environmental laws, proponents have vastly overstated …

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