So says a press release from the Independent Institute:
Oakland, CA, Feb. 10, 2010—The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has requested a $4.03 billion budget for FY2011, a 23 percent increase over last year. Prompted by the FDA’s vast reach and alarming budget, a new report delves into the organization’s history, ...
David R. Henderson and Charles L. Hooper have an excellent column in Forbes. An excerpt:
Do you need a government agency to tell you which TV has a vivid picture? Do you need a government agency to tell you which car is reliable? How about which coffee tastes yummy or which ...
Economist Arnold Kling has an excellent essay at National Review on-line. I'll quote only what Arnold himself has quoted from the article on his blog:
The debate we should be having is over whether restraint in our use of medical services should be initiated by government officials or left to consumers. ...
"The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn't exist."
Remember this line from The Usual Suspects? It surely applies to health care reform. As the Cato Institute's Michael Cannon has written:
To paraphrase Keyser Söze, the greatest trick that supporters of socialized medicine ever played was to ...
If you care about affordable, accessible, and quality health care in the United States, please read and sign the Do No Harm Petition from the Galen Institute:
The Hippocratic Oath Taken by All Doctors: "First, do no harm"
Politicians, policymakers and public officials should take the same oath:
DO NO HARM TO AMERICA'S ...
How much profit do they make? According to a recent study by PricewaterhouseCoopers, just 3 cents on the dollar. This is pretty small compared to those in other industries.
The profits would be less if there were more competition. That is, if the tax code didn't favor employer-provided insurance, which makes ...
The big lie behind pushing politician-controlled health care is: that the United States has a free-market in health care, and that it's to blame for costs of medical care and insurance being so hight. AFL-CIO executives John Sweeney and Mike Cerbo perpetuate this in a commentary in Thursday's Denver ...
