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...
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...
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...
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...
What Causes Outsourcing "Both Democrats and Republicans complain about the "outsourcing" of jobs to India and China. But one major cause of outsourcing, ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Commentary: Coercive "Negotiation" "The below article unfortunately misses all of the moral issues underlying the attack on prescription drug makers, basing...
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...
Greedy or Ignorant by Walter Williams (January 10, 2005) Summary: The recently published "Miracle Cure," by Sally Pipes, president of the San Francisco-based...
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...
Shakedown: How Corporations, Government, and Trial Lawyers Abuse the Judicial Process by Robert A. Levy About the Book "Baseless lawsuits encourage the notion...
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...
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...
Price Controls on Pharmaceuticals are Impractical and Immoral Monday August 9, 2004 "Price controls on pharmaceuticals will be a disaster to medical research...
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...
Boutique Medical Practices--Yes! by Dr. Yaron Brook Monday January 28, 2002 "The outcry against 'boutique medical practices'-- where doctors charge a flat...
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...
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...
WHAT'S BEHIND THE FLU VACCINE SHORTAGE "The start of another flu season has found Americans facing a shortage of influenza vaccine. How did this shortage come...
The Meaning of the Right to Vote On Election Day remember that it is freedom, not voting, which makes America great. By Alex Epstein Every Election Day...
La Grippe of the Trial Lawyers Guess who's to blame for the flu vaccine fiasco. by William Tucker Excerpt: "JOHN KERRY wasted no time jumping on President...
From top new stories in TIA Daily by Robert Tracinski: A Referendum on Tort Reform "For most Americans, this election is about the war. For corporations, this...
Power to the patient By Scott W. Atlas, M.D. Published September 8, 2004 Excerpt: "Health care is a top domestic issue in this year's presidential campaign. No...