Maryland's Medmal Mess WSJ REVIEW & OUTLOOK December 21, 2004; Page A18 "It's hard to keep up with the states newly arriving at a medical malpractice-insurance...
WSJ REVIEW & OUTLOOK So Long to Shakedowns January 3, 2005; Page A8 What policy wonks call "tort reform" can sometimes seem to be a mere abstraction, but the...
Boutique Medical Practices--Yes! by Dr. Yaron Brook Monday January 28, 2002 "The outcry against 'boutique medical practices'-- where doctors charge a flat...
In the (Specialty) Hospital January 3, 2005; Page A8 WSJ REVIEW AND OUTLOOK "Count us among those who'd like to see Congress pass more market- oriented...
Price Controls on Pharmaceuticals are Impractical and Immoral Monday August 9, 2004 "Price controls on pharmaceuticals will be a disaster to medical research...
NEW BOOK: Lives at Risk How National Health Insurance Fails Patients. "Lives at Risk", is a definitive analysis of single-payer health care systems, especially...
Bush's Opening Salvo on Tort Reform "President Bush opens one of his first legislative campaigns today with a push for limits on non-objective "pain and...
Shakedown: How Corporations, Government, and Trial Lawyers Abuse the Judicial Process by Robert A. Levy About the Book "Baseless lawsuits encourage the notion...
Tort Bar Bonanza January 10, 2005; Page A12 WSJ REVIEW & OUTLOOK "As President Bush pushes for national tort reform, Maryland Democrats have a plan to take...
Greedy or Ignorant by Walter Williams (January 10, 2005) Summary: The recently published "Miracle Cure," by Sally Pipes, president of the San Francisco-based...
New Year For Choosing a Health Plan by Scott Holleran (January 11, 2005) Summary: The lack of a market in individual health insurance, not a lack of...
Commentary: Coercive "Negotiation" "The below article unfortunately misses all of the moral issues underlying the attack on prescription drug makers, basing...
Medical Lawsuits by Thomas Sowell (January 23, 2005) "...After so many megabucks awards grew out of claims that babies born with cerebral palsy could have been...
The Willy Sutton Theory of Government by Robert Tracinski "In the mindset of a career criminal [...just as for the advocate of the welfare state, government...
The "Heart" of Socialized Medicine by Dr. Andrew Bernstein "...The moral belief in the right to health care— health care at other people's expense— leads...
A Doctor Has a Right to His Own Life By: Jonathan Rosman, M.D. "A doctor has a right to work for himself, and to charge such fees as he deems his expertise to...
Rewarding the MVPs of the Business [and Health Care] World by Elan Journo (February 6, 2005) Summary: ..."To successfully steer a corporation across the span...
Tort Reform, Step One "One of the better trends promoted by the Bush administration is a package of reforms designed to reduce frivolous lawsuits aimed at the...
What Causes Outsourcing "Both Democrats and Republicans complain about the "outsourcing" of jobs to India and China. But one major cause of outsourcing, ...
Special Health Courts "President Bush has cited medical liability as one of three parts of tort reform that he wants passed in his second term. But there's no...
Doctors wary of Medicare audit plan's incentives The AMA says it will work with state medical associations to make sure the Medicare pilot program is fair. By...
Illegal Immigrant Medical Bills Drive LA into Debt "Los Angeles County is being besieged by medical bills from the uninsured and the illegal immigrants who...
ADOPTING CANADIAN-STYLE HEALTH CARE WOULD BE FOLLY -Jeff Jacoby "The American health care system is not perfect, but adopting a single-payer system like...
April 4, 2005 Doctors Lobbying to Halt Cuts to Medicare Payments By ROBERT PEAR WASHINGTON, April 3 - Doctors are mobilizing a nationwide lobbying campaign to...
A PRESCRIPTION THAT WORKS: HEALTH SAVINGS ACCOUNTS Companies are designing health plans that subtly encourage job applicants who need more health care to seek...
The Old Regime of Class-Action Looting "This is a nice piece of reporting, using the simple document of a check for 49 cents to track down the whole sordid...
What are Individual Rights? Do they Apply Equally to Doctors? Man's Rights by Ayn Rand <<Ed. The use of the word "Man" and masculine pronouns below merely ...
AFCM Letter to the New York Times ³In his column "Ailing Health Care" (April 11) Paul Krugman calls on your readers to "get ideology out of the way" as the...
The Canadian Collapse "The collapse of the Soviet Union dealt the real death-blow to the ideal of socialism. But almost as significant may be the ongoing...