Health

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.

Remember: there is a story like this behind just about everything government does. If you comprehend that, you can understand why people like Albert Jay Nock said that the state is always and everywhere the enemy.

Congress has again passed an expansion of the State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP), only to have it vetoed again.

And if the strongest arguments supporters can make for it require both substantial misrepresentation and high pressure, they have a poor case.

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