Health Economics (Drugs, Body Parts Markets and Socialized Medicine)
Recorded at Mises University 2004.
Health
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Pick and Choose Your Government Intervention
I’m not on board the anti-Splenda train.
Playing God at the FDA
What chain of events led to "free" Americans having less in the way of health choices under some circumstances than "unfree" socialist Europe? Dale Steinreich examines the FDA.
The Genius of Rube Goldberg
The Rube Goldberg machine: some crazy convoluted way of accomplishing a task that would otherwise be quite simple. A perfect way to describe the Clinton health care plan and emerging Social Security reform.
On the Ethics of Paying Organ Donors: An Economics Perspective
Presented as part of the Mises Institute’s Brown Bag Seminar series on April 21, 2005 in Auburn, Alabama.
The Economics of the End of Life
The presence of the medical welfare state has permitted costs that would have fallen upon the families most affected to be imposed on others, writes William Anderson.
Kill the Prescription Drug Benefit
Writes George Reisman: there is still time to abort this highly destructive program, which constitutes the largest increase in the welfare-state functions of our government since the administration of Lyndon Johnson in the 1960s.
How Medical Boards Nationalized Health Care
State medical boards, writes Henry E. Jones, masquerade as consumer protection agencies to get public support, police powers, and taxpayer dollars.
Hard Drugs for Little Kids?
Presented to the Auburn University Libertarians; Auburn, Alabama, on 3 February 2005.
Keep Your Eye on the Assumptions
Robert Murphy critiques Steven Landsburg's call to slow the spread of AIDS through a very counterintuitive call for more promiscuity.
