We’re 10 years into the future and you have terminal cancer. Still, all is not lost. Doctors in other countries are reporting successful remission of your type of cancer, using a drug originally approved in the United States for some other purpose. There are several journal articles that appear to back up these claims and […]
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FREE recently hosted a conference, “Personal Health Care Choices and Public Policy,” for Federal Judges, State Supreme Court Justices, and Law Professors. This is an area fraught with supply and access problems, competing values, and political opportunism. Economics offers some important insights when considering them. John Goodman, Ph.D., is one of FREE’s senior fellows. John […]
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FREE recently hosted a conference, “Personal Health Care Choices and Public Policy,” for Federal Judges, State Supreme Court Justices, and Law Professors. This is an area fraught with supply and access problems, competing values, and political opportunism. Economics offers some important insights when considering them. What aspects of health care resemble a classic economic good? […]
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The free market is a wonderful device for coordinating our productive activity to maximize the satisfaction of our needs. It encourages people to cooperate both with those they know and with strangers. Since markets foster both prosperity and personal liberty, communism has been consigned to the dustbin of history except in places like North Korea. […]
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Last week FREE hosted a program for federal judges and law professors, “Personal Health Care Choices and Public Policy.” The speakers included some of America’s most well-known, seasoned, and respected analysts. All are PhDs and MDs from top places including Columbia, Harvard, Hopkins, MIT, and Yale. (Please contact FREE’s office for a list of speakers, […]
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Please click here for Free the Children by John Goodman.
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Ramona and I just returned from my successful reconstructive surgery in Baltimore. We came back through Minneapolis, me in a leg cast rolling through the airport in a wheelchair. I’ve known this procedure was coming for six years. With Obama’s election, I’ve anticipated increased difficulty in acquiring excellent medical care. Hence, I’ve been more sensitive […]
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Governor Schweitzer is proposing Montanans be allowed to re-import U.S. prescription drugs from Canada. He believes this could save consumers up to 40 percent on their medical prescriptions, totaling some $280 million in annual savings. On average, prices for U.S. manufactured drugs are much lower abroad than for the same drugs sold at home. This […]
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Health care reform seems hopelessly complex only because it is. Yet, there are a few underlying, but seldom spoken about, forces that make it more intelligible. All of this is in accord with a fundamental principle of political economy; important issues that are complex and carry heavy emotional baggage naturally generate error and acrimony. Political […]
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Some of my columns are generated by suggestions from readers. Most recently, I received one from a woman with whom I share a class at The Ridge. She is a cashier at a Bozeman grocery store that nearly all know and love. She suggested a column on obesity, poverty, and proposed health care reform. As […]
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