Politicians are very proud when they can say a proposed program is "paid for." But this only means they've identified their intended victims ahead of time. Naming who will be plundered does not justify plunder.
Medicare and Medicaid ended up destroying the finest healthcare system in history, and the healthcare crisis has become a permanent part of American life.
Should the medical school curriculum include health inequity, climate change, and gun control? Accad and Koka discuss the politicization of medical education with Dr. Stanley Goldfarb.
Medicinal chemist John Tucker, PhD, and hypertension specialist Swapnil Hiremath, MD, share their perspectives and impressions on the unsettling question of generic drugs.
In a sense, it is hardly surprising that so little attention has been paid to scandals within universal healthcare systems given the histories of underperformance, scandal, and perpetual crisis associated with many such systems.
Generic drug use has been encouraged through decades of favorable legislation and subsidies. What should doctors and the public know about generic drug manufacture?
A health policy of choice—not of constraints—is what we need, says guest David Balat.
What is the outlook for the science of mental illness and the practice of psychiatry? Accad and Koka interview Dr. George Dawson.
Bob Murphy and longtime libertarian journalist Bretigne Shaffer discuss the vaccinations now enforced for school children in California, and the parents who are protesting the policy.
Peter Klein discusses “evidence-based economics” and the relative place of randomized trials in economics and medicine.
