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Benefits of a Balanced Public Health Strategy AIER

WEBOn March 11, 2020, the World Health Organization declared Covid-19 a pandemic, deeming the virus to be a critical issue in global health. As of December 31, …

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Are We Really Ready for Free-Market Healthcare

WEBAt Reason, Peter Suderman delves into expert responses to Elizabeth Warren’s attempt at a fully-financed Medicare-for-All plan, finding that, “the plan is full of …

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Individualism and Public Health: Tensions and Challenges AIER

WEBWhat it has done, for various reasons, is highlight the continuing uneasy relationship between individualism and both the idea and practice of public health. …

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What accounts for America’s life expectancy gap

WEBDeaths from these causes tend to cluster among younger people such that they disproportionately depress statistics regarding life expectancy at birth. Once you …

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What Can Hayek Say About Public Health

WEBA Hayekian Regimen for Public Health. Across a series of articles and books, Hayek notes that the knowledge that guides individual behavior is tacit and dispersed. …

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We Don’t Have a Real Market for Health Care in the U.S. AIER

WEBAmericans, by contrast, waste $2.4 trillion a year on unnecessary health care costs that could be put to other purposes. Huge gains, as Flynn shows through the …

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The Real Problem With the Health Care System AIER

WEBThe Real Problem With the Health Care System. Health care costs are again in the news, and we are told they will be on the minds of voters this election …

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Lockdowns Worsen the Health Crisis AIER

WEBLockdowns Worsen the Health Crisis. One of the most infuriating aspects of a year replete with illogical, short-sighted public health mandates has been the utter …

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Medical Journal Warns About Masks’ Potentially Devastating

WEBIt argues that masks are not merely a “talisman,” as the Journal of the American Medical Association said in April 2020 (before the authors were forced to …

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Wealth Precedes Health. Policy Should Reflect That. AIER

WEBThe connection with health is more than theoretical. In conjunction, political scientist Aaron Wildavsky wrote in 1980: “In the 100 years from 1870 to 1970, almost …

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No Lockdowns: The Terrifying Polio Pandemic of 1949-52 AIER

WEBIn 1949, the new polio epidemic appeared and swept through selective population centers, leaving its most tragic sign: children with wheelchairs, crutches, leg …

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The Flight of the Covid Quacks AIER

WEBWhat the flight of the Covid quacks portends, however, remains unclear. Quackery is a derisive term often used by medical establishments to denigrate …

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The Dangers of Masks AIER

WEBThis is a public health warning to the US population and elsewhere, as it appears that our public health agencies and television medical experts seem unable to …

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Cost of Lockdowns: A Preliminary Report AIER

WEBCardiovascular disease is the leading cause of death in the US; Premature cardiovascular disease and stroke mortality costs $137.5 billion in lost future …

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Masking Children: Tragic, Unscientific, and Damaging AIER

WEB"Masking children is as absurd, illogical, nonsensical, and potentially dangerous as trying to stop ‘every case of Covid’ or ‘stopping Covid at all costs.’ Masks …

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The Great Reflation AIER

WEB“The financial crisis, the speculative bubble leading up to it, and the aftermath have proven once again just how true the old saying is that if you want to know what’s …

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Government Intervention in Health Insurance Falls Short AIER

WEBThe Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare, fell short of its main objectives. The goal of Obamacare was to expand access to health care and to reduce …

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How and Why Government Creates Disease Panic AIER

WEBAn excess of COVID-19 news generated anxiety and panic, also called “headline stress disorder”. Negative social media news generates psychological stress …

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Herbert Spencer’s Critique of the Board of Health in 1851

WEBThe 19th century liberal philosopher Herbert Spencer included a devastating critique of the Board of Health in his 1851 book Social Statics, which argued that the …

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WHO Deletes Naturally Acquired Immunity from Its Website

WEBSome estimates are as low as 10%, which is a far cry from the modelled 70% estimate of virus immunity that is standard within the pharmaceutical realm. Real life is vastly more …

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