Why ObamaCare Will Fail: A Reading List
This healthcare reading list will help the concerned citizen understand how we got where we are — and where we are headed if we continue on this path.
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What Soviet Medicine Teaches Us
In 1918, the Soviet Union became the first country to promise universal “cradle-to-grave” healthcare, writes Yuri N. Maltsev.
Hospital of Cards
The US healthcare system is a huge bubble fueled by the government's ability to borrow money at artificially low interest rates.
Monopoly Dentistry
As Mises showed, occupational licensing must lead to a decrease in supply, monopolistic conditions, and thus a lessening of competition.
First Cigarettes, Now Bacon and Eggs
First they came for the cigarettes, then Hank Williams Jr. got knocked off Monday Night Football.
Prohibition Through the Eyes of Homer Simpson
Presented to the Young Americans for Liberty. Hosted at the Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama, on 13 September 2011.
The Mayo Clinic and the Free Market
Remarkably, however, the patron of the famous clinic did not have a medical license.
The Economics of US Healthcare
The US healthcare system is a complex leviathan of interdependent cartels rather than a free market.
The Pretense of Medical Knowledge
We should hope that the medical art is not co-opted by governing elites (including those with an MD or MPH after their name) who believe that practicing medicine is as easy as checking off boxes and interpreting numbers on a computer screen. Such a simplistic view is undoubtedly a fatal conceit.
