Health
A Tale of Two Shortages
There was a time not too long ago when America's healthcare was considered the best in the world and it was affordable to all.
A Four-Step Healthcare Solution
It’s true that the US health-care system is a mess, but this demonstrates not market but government failure.
Universal Coverage Means Suppressing Human Choice
With such consumers in mind, we can assert with confidence that a health insurance mandate must, by praxeological definition, decrease consumer welfare and thus make the economy less efficient.
Involuntary Medical Servitude
It is a betrayal of our duty to our patient to use any consideration of some greater social good defined by the government to alter the best course of action for the patient.
What Soviet Medicine Teaches Us
In 1918, the Soviet Union became the first country to promise universal “cradle-to-grave” healthcare coverage, to be accomplished throu
Compulsory Social Insurance
On the other hand, a social order weakens these forces when it promises that if the individual's work is hindered by illness or the effects of a trauma, he shall live without work or with little work and suffer no very noticeable reduction in his income.
A Four-Step Healthcare Solution
Only these four steps, although drastic, will restore a fully free market in medical provision.
The Real Right to Medical Care versus Socialized Medicine
The actual solution to the problem of runaway medical costs lies in the precise opposite of the direction chosen by the Clinton plan.