All Posts Tagged With: "FDA"
A Question of Intent: A Great American Battle with a Deadly Industry
How should we regard the tobacco industry? Specifically, how should we view its actions before the late 1990s, when a combination of regulatory and litigation onslaughts changed its very nature? Before that time, was the industry engaged in dishonestly hooking the public on a product that it knew to be deadly, or was it legitimately [...]
1Sep2002 | Sam Kazman | 1 comment | ContinuedAmerican Health Care edited by Roger Feldman
Independent Institute · 2000 · 429 pages · $39.95 Reviewed by Vincent Cangello, M.D. American Health Care is the work of 15 writers expert in different facets of the health-care delivery debate. I regard it as one of the best books on the problems in our health-care system since Paul Starr’s 1982 prize winner, The [...]
1Aug2001 | Vincent Cangello M.D. | 0 comments | ContinuedTo America’s Health: A Proposal to Reform the Food and Drug Administration by Henry I. Miller
Hoover Institution Press • 2000 • 112 pages • $14.95 paperback The Food and Drug Administration has a stranglehold on the introduction of new drugs, medical devices, and manufacturer-written information about products. The rationale is to assure quality and safety. Although consumers demand quality and safety assurance, the free-enterprise and tort system are supposedly unable [...]
1Jul2001 | Daniel B. Klein | 0 comments | ContinuedEconomists Against the FDA
A sulfa drug called Elixir Sulfanilamide released in 1937 killed over 100 Americans, mostly children. A sedative called Thalidomide released in Europe in 1957 and taken by pregnant women caused deformities in 10,000 children. These famous episodes strike us as horrible injustices that must be prevented. But more deadly are quack platitudes that guide public [...]
1Sep2000 | Daniel B. Klein | 8 comments | ContinuedTrust and Privacy on the Net
Daniel Klein teaches economics at Santa Clara University. He is the author of Assurance and Trust in a Great Society, a recently published FEE Occasional Paper. With the growth of the Internet has come a lot of talk about privacy. In a recent cover story in The Economist, “The End of Privacy,” the magazine warned [...]
1May2000 | Daniel B. Klein | 0 comments | ContinuedA Breach of the Public Trust
M. Reed Hopper is a principal attorney with the Pacific Legal Foundation and chairman of the foundation’s Patriot Action League. Few things in life are more uncertain than government regulation. Long-held understandings and settled expectations can literally change overnight in the fickle halls of officialdom. Consistent interpretations of federal law, relied on for years by [...]
1May2000 | M. Reed Hopper | 0 comments | ContinuedA World Without the FDA
Back in 1980 I had the good fortune to spend a summer in Santiago, Chile. My woeful high-school French produced an even more woeful Spanish, but I was able to travel about that beautiful country with wonderful people. In the middle of my stay I developed a fearful cold and wandered into what looked like [...]
1Sep1999 | Russell Roberts | 16 comments | ContinuedThe Bully that Acts Like a Hero
Harold Jones teaches at Mercer University’s Eugene W. Stetson School of Business and Economics in Macon, Georgia. In 1995 President Clinton established what he called “Operation Restore Trust,” a Health and Human Services initiative aimed at wiping out fraud and abuse in the health-care industry. According to the administration, only terrorism surpassed health-care fraud as [...]
1Mar1999 | Harold B. Jones Jr. | 0 comments | ContinuedRegulatory Poison
James Bennett and Thomas DiLorenzo are professors of economics at George Mason University in Virginia and Loyola College in Maryland, respectively. This article is adapted from their forthcoming book, The Food and Drink Police: America’s Nannies, Busybodies, and Petty Tyrants. Last summer the meat-processing company Hudson Foods recalled 25 million pounds of hamburger after several [...]
1Feb1998 | James Bennett | 1 comment | ContinuedConsumer Information and the Calculation Debate
Dr. Pasour is professor of agricultural and resource economics at North Carolina State University, Raleigh. Government intervention has been common throughout the world over the past half century, whatever the type of political and economic system. In socialist countries such as the former Soviet Union and its satellites, government assumed primary responsibility for all economic [...]
1Dec1996 | E.C. Pasour Jr. | 0 comments | ContinuedHazardous to Our Health? FDA Regulation of Health Care Products
Mr. Bandow is a Senior Fellow at the Cato Institute and the author of The Politics of Envy: Statism as Theology (Transaction). There was a time when people actually trusted the federal government. However, “I’m from the government and I’m here to help you” is now considered to be a top joke line, along with [...]
1Jul1996 | Doug Bandow | 0 comments | ContinuedThe Morality of Freedom
Mr. Bandow is a Senior Fellow at the Cato Institute and the author of The Politics of Envy: Statism as Theology (Transaction). Freedom. Presumably every reader of The Freeman is committed to this principle. But why? What good is it? After I endorsed a federal budget “train wreck,” arguing that closing down the government would [...]
1Mar1996 | Doug Bandow | 1 comment | ContinuedIncreasing Access to Pharmaceuticals
Doug Bandow, guest editor for the February Freeman, is the author and editor of several books, including Reforming Medicine Through Competition and Innovation (John Locke Foundation). The collapse of the campaign to essentially nationalize America’s health-care system put a political stake through the heart of proposals to solve medical problems with new bureaucracies and more [...]
1Feb1996 | Doug Bandow | 0 comments | ContinuedBioethics Opportunities, Risks, and Ethics: The Privatization of Cancer Research
Bioethics burst onto the scene last decade. Its mission: to analyze and judge the moral aspects of clinical and research medicine. Dr. Robert K. Oldham argues that ethical conduct “is simply a matter of doing that which is right.” In Bioethics, he sets out to challenge the legitimacy of his most vocal critics: medicine’s “mainstream” [...]
1Feb1996 | Jeffrey A. Singer | 0 comments | ContinuedA Sales Pitch for Laissez-Faire Health Care
A Health-Care System Based on Liberty, Property, and Consent Would Have Many Benefits
1Jul1995 | Daniel B. Klein | 6 comments | ContinuedLive Freely, Live Longer
Mr. More is editor of Extropy and President of Extropy Institute. He has studied at Oxford University and is currently completing a doctoral dissertation at the University of Southern California. The founders of the United States valued “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.” Life–healthy and long life–makes possible everything else we value. Without life [...]
1May1995 | Max More | 0 comments | ContinuedHuman Health and Costly Risk Reduction
With the Clinton administration’s misguided national health-care initiative dead, at least for now, it is time to consider an alternative. Let’s improve human health by eliminating or at least sharply modifying federal rules designed to reduce risk. Does this seem paradoxical? It shouldn’t. Risk reduction is a natural substitute for health-care spending. If the incidence [...]
1Mar1995 | Bruce Yandle | 0 comments | Continued-
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