Andrew Foy, MD

Articles

07/18/2012 Mises Daily Andrew Foy, MD

The right to healthcare is synonymous with the right to national bankruptcy.

04/24/2012 Mises Daily Andrew Foy, MD

The US healthcare system is a huge bubble fueled by misguided policies that are sustained by the government’s ability to borrow money at artificially low interest rates. When either the policies...

The Pretense of Medical Knowledge

07/21/2011 Mises Daily Andrew Foy, MD

Like his mentor Ludwig von Mises, Friedrich Hayek spent his academic career trying to expose the central planner’s pretense of economic knowledge. In doing so, Hayek referred to “the knowledge problem...

Media

On Hubris, the Experts, and Healthcare-System Reform

05/31/2011 Andrew Foy, MD

The way to become an expert is as follows: don’t challenge the prevailing orthodoxy of the institution; learn the history, underlying principles, and the inner workings of the institution; regurgitate the orthodoxy as you’ve been taught; celebrate

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