Health

In a free-market healthcare system, doctors would join together to form large firms to offer the benefits of specialization and economies of scale.

The data suggests the vast majority of Americans have access to healthy food. Some people choose not to eat it.

The advent of health insurance and regulated health care brought a new era of rampant health care inflation.

A brief history of how various state interventions have raised health care prices and lessened access.

The claim is made that drug use is immoral, so must therefore be illegal. Should we outlaw every other immoral activity also?

Dr. Mark Thornton is interviewed on the suburban heroin epidemic in America.

Tax day reminds us of the violent coercion that is essential to every government's budget.

Dr. Accad presents a brilliant application of Austrian theory to real world practice.

Moral hazard is a vital concept for economics. We should be careful not to let critics trivialize or dismiss it; when they do, calls for government intervention and special privileges are seldom far behind.

Should the government impose its own standards for certification for physicians? The short answer is "no."