Healthcare
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Tuition-Free Medical School Is Not Working Out
Financial incentives shape behavior — not always for the better.
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Amnesty + Medicare for All Would Bankrupt America
Smart immigration drives economic growth, but open doors would shred the social safety net.
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Experts Created the Peanut Allergy Epidemic
In 1999, experts recommended (without evidence) that healthy pregnant women and toddlers avoid peanuts. Over the next 20 years, ER visits for anaphylaxis increased 1,000 percent.
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Trump’s Subsidized IVF Spells Disaster
“Trump’s plan is a disaster from the perspective of cost, incentives, and value neutrality.” ~Vanessa Brown Calder
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Overhaul for the Uninsured?
“Full reliance on a public budgeting system for providing access to medical care is a certain prescription for millions of disappointed patients.” ~James C. Capretta
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Medicare’s Real Contribution: Hollowing Out Healthcare
“Declining reimbursement rates, on top of losses in purchasing power, result in reduced access to care, as some physicians have limited the number of Medicare patients they accept or have stopped accepting new Medicare patients altogether.” ~Peter C. Earle
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Wealth Precedes Health. Policy Should Reflect That.
“Government policies including excessive taxation and regulation, directly taking property, and weak patent and copyright protection can negatively affect wealth in rich and poor countries.” ~Richard Williams
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The Red Pill for Pill Ad Headaches
“Suppose all Americans and Kiwis look to their own self-interest by avoiding advertised drugs whenever possible. In that case, drug manufacturers would have an incentive to stop DTCA of their own accord.” ~Robert E. Wright
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FTC Suit Against US Anesthesia Partners Highlights How Anticompetitive US Health Care Is
“The complaint — which makes for surprisingly good reading — also makes clear the wide variety of existing practices that make the healthcare industry so anti-competitive.” ~Angela Dills
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Psychedelics Will Help America’s Mental Health Crisis — If the FDA Lets Them
“The FDA granted ecstasy breakthrough therapy status in 2017, expediting its process to becoming an approved treatment. Generating an approval process for other drugs like these is the next logical and necessary step.” ~Raymond Marc
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Tuition-Free Medical School Is Not Working Out
Financial incentives shape behavior — not always for the better.
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•
Amnesty + Medicare for All Would Bankrupt America
Smart immigration drives economic growth, but open doors would shred the social safety net.
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•
Experts Created the Peanut Allergy Epidemic
In 1999, experts recommended (without evidence) that healthy pregnant women and toddlers avoid peanuts. Over the next 20 years, ER visits for anaphylaxis increased 1,000 percent.
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Trump’s Subsidized IVF Spells Disaster
“Trump’s plan is a disaster from the perspective of cost, incentives, and value neutrality.” ~Vanessa Brown Calder
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Overhaul for the Uninsured?
“Full reliance on a public budgeting system for providing access to medical care is a certain prescription for millions of disappointed patients.” ~James C. Capretta
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Medicare’s Real Contribution: Hollowing Out Healthcare
“Declining reimbursement rates, on top of losses in purchasing power, result in reduced access to care, as some physicians have limited the number of Medicare patients they accept or have stopped accepting new Medicare patients altogether.” ~Peter C. Earle
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Wealth Precedes Health. Policy Should Reflect That.
“Government policies including excessive taxation and regulation, directly taking property, and weak patent and copyright protection can negatively affect wealth in rich and poor countries.” ~Richard Williams
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•
The Red Pill for Pill Ad Headaches
“Suppose all Americans and Kiwis look to their own self-interest by avoiding advertised drugs whenever possible. In that case, drug manufacturers would have an incentive to stop DTCA of their own accord.” ~Robert E. Wright
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•
FTC Suit Against US Anesthesia Partners Highlights How Anticompetitive US Health Care Is
“The complaint — which makes for surprisingly good reading — also makes clear the wide variety of existing practices that make the healthcare industry so anti-competitive.” ~Angela Dills
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•
Psychedelics Will Help America’s Mental Health Crisis — If the FDA Lets Them
“The FDA granted ecstasy breakthrough therapy status in 2017, expediting its process to becoming an approved treatment. Generating an approval process for other drugs like these is the next logical and necessary step.” ~Raymond Marc