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Is Health Care a Human Right

With negative rights, the corollary duties are equally shared by all duty-holders. No one is exempt from the obligation not to kill, steal, or assault. … See more

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Why Health Care Is so Expensive (and How to Fix It)

WEBHealth care decision making needs to return to the people. David Sukoff . Dave Sukoff is an advisor to the investment management …

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Are We Really All Healthcare Collectivists Now

WEBX. “We have to do something about health care.”. The scariest word in that sentence is not something. It’s we. The first-person plural form is not merely a …

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Is Health Insurance Really Insurance

WEBIf the company offering insurance wants to just break even on the insurance payouts, they’ll need to divide that $3.5 million among the seven thousand policy-holders for a total yearly premium of $500 each. …

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Why You’re Paying More (and More) For Health Care

WEBSince 2007, health care prices increased 21.6 percent, while prices in the general economy grew 17.3 percent. US health care …

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Government Makes Healthcare Worse and More Expensive

WEBThe Food and Drug Administration (FDA) places incredibly stringent rules on clinical trials and drug approval, thus making the process unnecessarily lengthy and …

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Markets Run Health Care Better Than Government …

WEBGovernment-run health care is inherently a redistribution scheme between those who make good choices and those who do not. While our legislators attempt to …

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Health Care Is a Mess But Why

WEBOn top of that, these programs constantly require tax increases, and because they function more to satisfy the health care industry than the worker, they continually lead to more expensive and …

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National Health Care: Medicine in Germany, 1918-1945

WEBHealth Care. Marc S. Micozzi M.D. X Flipboard LinkedIn. Marc S. Micozzi, M.D., Ph.D., a physician and anthropologist, directs the National Museum of Health and …

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Socialized Medicine Is “Free” But Leads To Really, Really …

WEBRelated: This is from the executive summary of Canada’s Fraser Institute’s most recent annual report “Waiting Your Turn: Wait Times for Health Care in Canada, 2017 Report” (emphasis added):. Waiting for …

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What Hunger Insurance Could Teach Us About Health Insurance

WEBHealth expenses are an insurable risk, and because they can be substantial it certainly makes sense for people to buy insurance. But insurance should not be simply …

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I Was a Physician at a Federally Qualified Health Center. Here's …

WEBIn my medical training, a fellow physician tried to convince me that my liberal leanings on health care were misguided. While I firmly believed that the government …

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17 Arguments Against Socialized Medicine

WEBA man who could be “back on the job” in minutes might have to wait weeks, with resulting loss of production to himself and to society. 9. A program of socialized medicine, once …

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Louis Pasteur: "The Father of Microbiology" Who Pioneered …

WEBVaccines. Alexander C.R. Hammond. Today’s Hero of Progress is Louis Pasteur, a 19th century French scientist, who is commonly dubbed the “father of …

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LSD Could Be the Key to Alleviating the Mental Health Crisis—if

WEBLSD Could Be the Key to Alleviating the Mental Health Crisis—if Government Allows It. The general public is starting to warm to the idea that psychedelics, just like …

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Socialized Medicine: The Canadian Experience

WEBSocialized Medicine: The Canadian Experience. Pierre Lemieux. The Commission believes that the reduction of these inequalities and more generally the achievement of fairness …

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Why Private Healthcare Is Booming in Scandinavian Countries

WEBThe respondents also noted that a primary reason for choosing private healthcare was the decrease in waiting time, or in other words, the decreased risk of …

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Marijuana Legalization Has 3 Life-Saving Public Health Benefits, …

WEBHarkening back to the days of “Reefer Madness,” proponents of marijuana criminalization have tended to frame their arguments in terms of protecting the public …

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The Childhood Quality That’s the Best Predictor of Wealth, Health, …

WEBNo. It is none of these things. Longitudinal cohort studies consistently find that self-control in childhood best predicts health, wealth, and happiness in adulthood, …

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How Obamacare is Destroying Healthcare Access

WEBJohn Graham explains that “CBO estimates Obamacare will leave 27 million uninsured through 2019 – an increase of almost one quarter” and that “CBO estimates …

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There Really Were Health Nazis

WEBThere Really Were Health Nazis. Many smokers these days poke fun at the crusaders of the anti-tobacco lobby as “health nazis.”. The comparison is related to the …

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Lodge Doctors and the Poor

WEBLodge practice became particularly extensive in urban and industrial centers. In 1915, for example, Dr. S.S. Goldwater, Health Commissioner of New York City, went so far as to …

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