Health

Taxpayers are paying the disability pension of a "disabled" former cop who works full-time for the FBI and is classified as being in "excellent physical condition."

Dr. Accad critically examines the “Population Health” movement.

Proponents of Medicaid expansion pioneered new ways of covering up the true costs of a government program.

The great libertarian psychiatrist Thomas Szasz warned that health officials could use their "expertise" to push a political agenda. We're now living in that world.

Dr. Bob Gill, producer of the documentary The Great NHS Heist, discusses his fears of what is undermining the mission of the NHS.

The repeated failure of prohibition may be just the catalyst that Austrian economics needs to gain traction with the American public.

Single-payer systems do indeed restrict access and quality. They just do it by imposing long wait times, cutting off costlier patients, and restricting access to hospital rooms.

Clearly marked prices on private-sector cash-payment surgeries are a great thing. In fact, the competition of for-profit surgery centers drives down prices at more "traditional" (i.e., highly bureaucratized) hospitals.

Proponents of socialized medicine assert that markets cannot be trusted with healthcare due to "market failure." But the assumed "failures" of health markets are not improved by socializing healthcare.