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Separate the Professions and the State
Lewis Andrews (lew@yankeeinstitute.org) is executive director of the Yankee Institute for Public Policy in Hartford, Connecticut. Since the early 1990s, and even through the collapse of the stock-market bubble, the American economy has continued to experience remarkable increases in worker productivity, both in manufacturing, which now accounts for 14 percent of the nation’s output, and [...]
1Dec2004 | Lewis M. Andrews | 0 comments | ContinuedEvaluating New Drugs: Remember the Bigger Picture
“Don’t be penny-wise and pound-foolish” is an old adage that cautions us about false savings. Sometimes spending a little more now makes the best sense if it maximizes our savings in the long run. Failure to understand this lesson is at the root of many misjudgments and bad policies swirling around prescription drugs these days. [...]
1Oct2002 | Lawrence W. Reed | 0 comments | ContinuedCapital Letters
What Is “Mental Illness”? To the Editor: [The March column opposing insurance parity for psychiatric treatment by] Thomas Szasz . . . shocked and disappointed me. . . . Any close relative (myself included) of a person who was formerly seriously mentally ill—with all the unwanted auditory and visual cacophony—and was returned to normal rational [...]
1Jul2002 | FEE Admin | 0 comments | ContinuedMedical Technology and the State
So-called public-policy experts often take the many advances in modern technology for granted. They assume that government regulations and controls merely redistribute the fruits of progress without affecting the nature and extent of technological development itself. But that is wrong. Whenever the government involves itself in the financing and distribution of goods and services, the [...]
1May2002 | Gary M. Pecquet | 1 comment | ContinuedHealth Care: Over the Canadian Cliff?
Doug Bandow, a nationally syndicated columnist, is a senior fellow at the Cato Institute and the author and editor of several books, including Tripwire: Korea and U.S. Foreign Policy in a Changed World. Everyone in Washington recognizes that Medicare is headed over a financial cliff. The growth in spending continues to outpace that of revenues; [...]
1Oct1999 | Doug Bandow | 1 comment | ContinuedLoved to Death: America’s Unresolved Health-Care Crisis
Dr. Hurd is a psychologist/author residing in Maryland. The Canadian health-care system of single-payer, socialized insurance is in trouble. Yet Congress and the president continue to push the American system in the same direction. As Canada’s national government slashes spending on medical care in order to reduce the deficit, local provinces are reducing medical staff. [...]
1Nov1997 | Michael J. Hurd | 1 comment | ContinuedFrom Here to Economy: A Shortcut to Economic Literacy
The echoes of John Maynard Keynes still resonate across the intellectual and policy terrain traveled by economists. Thankfully, though, these echoes seem to be growing fainter with each passing year. From Here to Economy serves as an example of such developments. Author Todd Buchholz provides an interesting overview of the economics world, though his book [...]
1Feb1996 | Raymond J. Keating | 0 comments | Continued-
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