Health

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.

The usual argument about smoking and anti-obesity laws is that people who are sick cost the public money.

While the supposed purpose of genetic antidiscrimination laws is to "protect genetic privacy," the actual effect is to remove the ability of insurers to provide financial incentives for people to get screened for potentially fatal genetic risk factors. This will only lead to unnecessary deaths from treatable genetic disorders and higher health insurance costs.

I just heard from Lew Rockwell and he made it out of surgery just fine.