[This article is excerpted from a talk given June 17, 2021, at the Mises Institute’s Medical Freedom Summit in Salem, New Hampshire.] Ladies and gentlemen, why are we here today? First, in a certain sense medicine in America is broken. Doctors and patients are unhappy, the quality of care deteriorates, and costs keep increasing. Even before covid,
Enough is enough. It is time to stop wearing masks, or at the very least to eliminate mask mandates in all settings. This is especially urgent for children in schools and universities, who suffer the effects of masks for long hours each day despite being at exceedingly low risk for death or serious illness from covid. We have a responsibility,
Even amidst plenty of bad news, quiet revolutions happen all around us. No American industry is more ripe for disruption than medicine. Americans are addled; sick, overweight, mentally unwell, and dependent on too many prescription drugs. The business of “healthcare” is dominated by government—Medicare—and “private” insurance company middlemen,
What’s going on in the gold market? Is cryptocurrency the way forward? How can we map out our economic future in light of the GDP drop and unemployment? Jeff Deist calls in to A Neighbor’s Choice and discusses Biden’s call for mask mandates, moving on from the lockdowns, and how to realistically deal with the virus. Find more
On the heels of Biden’s vaccine mandate announcement, Dr. Murray Sabrin joins the show to discuss his new book on escaping the state’s medical fascism. Universal Medical Care from Conception to End of Life lays out the sobering reality of our unsustainable “health care” system. It explains the ruinous policies which changed doctors from respected
It is time to get back to normal life, and that starts with visible human faces. Original Article: “ Unmask America “ This Audio Mises Wire is generously sponsored by Christopher Condon. Narrated by Michael
Medicine is fundamentally poised for an incredible entrepreneurial breakthrough. The kind of breakthrough that will revolutionize the practice and delivery of medicine and how we think about health. A new world of medical entrepreneurship is growing. Concierge and cash-only practices, walk-in cash clinics, medical tourism, and cost-sharing plans
Financial journalist John Tamny has written the definitive book on the disastrous political mismanagement of Covid-19—and the resulting (still unfolding) calamities. When Politicians Panicked is a superb analysis of the economic tradeoffs ignored by alarmist Covid policymakers, and a blow by blow account of their bungling in the early months of
Donald Devine is a legend in Washington, DC conservative circles, where he gained fame wrestling civil service bloat as head of Reagan’s Office of Personnel Management. His new book The Enduring Tension: Capitalism and the Moral Order starts with Schumpter’s creative destruction and asks the tough question: can capitalism alone hold America
Normally we discuss books on The Human Action Podcast , but this new academic paper by Professor Philipp Bagus is too important to ignore. “ COVID-19 and the Political Economy of Mass Hysteria “ is the one journal article you need to read this year. In only about ten pages it makes the devastating case that perverse political incentives—along with
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