Health

From Part II of Defending the Undefendable, “Medical.” Read by Jeff Riggenbach.

"Costs of production do not determine prices of goods. Prices of goods determine costs of production."

The market, to the extent it is able to work freely, would lower healthcare prices while increasing quality; to the extent that government is involved, expect higher-priced and lower-quality services — and more bureaucracy.

I do not want to be forced to conform to someone else's guidelines.

With an Introduction by Lew Rockwell. Recorded at the Mises Institute Supporters Summit, 1 November 2008; Auburn, Alabama.

Without the legal system ruining the lives of nonviolent drug users, there will be a light at the end of the dark tunnel known as drug addiction.

Thaler and Sunstein have set themselves a seemingly impossible task. Paternalists maintain that it is sometimes justifiable to interfere with someone's freedom, if doing so will promote his own good.

How do you create back alley organ transplants?

The movement towards socialized medicine is strong but widely misunderstood.

The real solution for health care insurance is therefore better education, both in terms of the history of governmental intervention in health care markets, and the theoretical concepts of Austrian economics that are indispensable to our understanding of historical facts.