David Kopel: Guns, Mental Illness and Newtown
- December 19, 2012
Our government currently tells air travelers, “Submit to our screening despite the dubious effectiveness, bodily invasion, and needless emotional distress” while simultaneously telling patients, “Don’t undergo cancer screening because it might lead to further bodily invasion and emotional distress.” Continue reading
READ MOREIf you really want to compare medical care outcomes in different countries, just looking at life expectancy is wrong. The best way to do it is [to measure survival rates and longevity] at the point of medical intervention. Continue reading
READ MOREProgress Now and the Colorado Consumer Health Initiative “thank Obamacare” for a mandate that violates the rights of insurers and employers to trade freely. It also increases insurance premiums. Continue reading
READ MOREPaul Hsieh, MD describes how interest groups are clamoring to have government require all legal health plans include certain mandated benefits, hence driving up the costs of the most basic health plans and requiring you to buy a plan with benefits you may neither want or need. Continue reading
READ MOREProf. James Stacey Taylor argues that willing rational adults should be allowed to buy and sell kidneys. Continue reading
READ MOREGena Akers of the San Luis Valley Regional Medical Center writes that requiring people to buy politician-approved health plan “works” because “free-riders are not allowed, therefore no cost-shifting.” This common justification for mandatory insurance (a.k.a., the individual mandate) is dubious at best and misleading at worst. Continue reading
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