Archive for Larry Van Heerden
Abolishing the FDA
Larry Van Heerden operates the Free-Market Medicine website. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) started out as a bulwark against snake-oil peddling. It has since swung back and forth between hostility and subservience to the drug industry. The FDA seems indifferent to the many deaths its own intransigence has caused and imperious when forced to [...]
1Mar2007 | Larry Van Heerden | 9 comments | ContinuedFree-Market Medicine
Larry Van Heerden is the author of website Free Market Medicine (www.MarketMed.org). The health-care system in the United States is beset by problems. After years of feeling shortchanged by managed care, doctors and hospitals are demanding and getting greater compensation; the elderly (under Medicare) have no prescription coverage; and many people find health insurance of [...]
1Aug2002 | Larry Van Heerden | 1 comment | Continued-
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