Healthcare

Romney’s claim is disingenuous if not downright misleading.

What do politicians call it when they force you to buy health insurance (or anything else) every day, for the rest of your life?  They call it "personal responsibility." How do they get away with that? Can anyone remember a time when personal responsibility...

During the coming year, the threat to freedom will proceed on multiple fronts. Each will require specific action. We are rapidly running out of time to prevent the destruction of the quality, availability and freedom of American medicine, and our best and last chance...

After fifty years of growing government programs, health care costs continue to rise. The U.S. government now controls nearly half of all health care dollars, and the crisis is becoming acute. The plans we are seeing from Washington are not innovations, but rather...

On August 18, the Atlanta-based Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals found the Affordable Care Act's mandatory insurance provision unconstitutional by a vote of 2-1. The dissenting judge, Stanley Marcus, while maintaining that the mandate for Americans to buy health...

There was a bit of an uproar recently when the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced, then withdrew, a plan to hire your fellow citizens to pose as patients seeking appointments with thousands of medical practices, using a script of false...

On many levels, Medicare is a fraud and a hoax. So it is no surprise that the current debate, and the way the debate is reported, is not about whether Medicare delivers medical care at all, let alone its availability or quality. Many politicians value Medicare...

The Obama administration regards this collectivization of medical providers as a desirable outcome, not merely some “unintended consequence.”

Americans benefit from the freest and most accessible medical care in the world.Gradually over the last fifty years, however, that care has become increasingly hampered by government controls. The last traces of free-market medicine could soon be gone--replaced by the...

The movement to repeal President Obama's signature health care law rightly criticizes the accounting trickery in the legislation's understated costs and overstated savings. In fact, when in the last two centuries has the U.S. Congress been able to reduce, control or...

The notion of a "right to health care" is the boldest and most fundamental claim offered in defense of Obamacare. Indeed, the law should be judged by whether it is consistent with the protection of rights. If the law cannot pass that test, the debate over it should...

If we eliminate the government interference that prevents valuable new drugs from reaching patients, we could save countless lives.