Health

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 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.

Presented as part of the Mises Institute’s Brown Bag Seminar series on April 21, 2005 in Auburn, Alabama.

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.

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.

State medical boards, writes Henry E. Jones, masquerade as consumer protection agencies to get public support, police powers, and taxpayer dollars.

Presented to the Auburn University Libertarians; Auburn, Alabama, on 3 February 2005.

Robert Murphy critiques Steven Landsburg's call to slow the spread of AIDS through a very counterintuitive call for more promiscuity.

Obesity may be an individual problem, writes Tibor Machan. But it is not a social problem in the sense that this phrase is usually employed. 

If we continue to pay attention to authors like Schlosser and Ehrenreich who blame the free market for the problems we face, public support for the market will dwindle to less than it is already, and the prosperity that the free market generates will be destroyed.