Health

This speech was delivered before the annual convention of the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons, St. Louis, Missouri, October 26, 2000.

How to counter the attack on junk food? Not through tortured reasoning but with a forthright defense of consumer freedom.
 

Americans are concerned about the rising cost of pharmaceutical drugs. This has drawn the attention of writers, politicians, and others who have attempted to deal with the issue in typical fashion by advocating the use of government force to implement their plan.

A famed physicist warns of a market-driven genetic caste system. But the real danger is putting the government in charge of any technology.

The New England Journal of Medicine has it backwards: it's public, not private, money that skews research agendas.

People's complaints about the rising price of drugs are both mistaken (no, more government controls won't help) and justified (patents do indeed restrict competition)

The Gore and Bradley plans to "fix" health care will do nothing of the sort. Neither addresses the key problem of the current system.

The Clinton administration wasn't content with blowing up a pharmacy in the Sudan; now it wants to blow up hundreds of them on the web.

Should skydiving and other risky practices be permitted or banned? Tibor Machan argues that only market exchange on private property provides a coherent answer. 

The really terrifying prospect is having to live a life entirely "naturally."