Tag: healthcare
Reddit AMA with Professor Ilya Somin of George Mason University
September 12, 2017 | Post
Ilya Somin is Professor of Law at George Mason University. His research focuses on constitutional law, property law, and the study of popular political participation.
Innovation in healthcare could be dangerous, but the alternative is worse.
July 26, 2017 | Post
The relevant alternative to a cheap healthcare provider for a lot of people isn’t a medical doctor — it’s Google.
Doctors violate American women’s rights in delivery rooms every day.
July 17, 2017 | Post
Violations of consent during childbirth are surprisingly common.
What to expect when you’re expecting: Lots of weird regulations and obscure laws
June 13, 2017 | Post
Government rules inflict unnecessary and invasive interventions on women giving birth.
Are Americans getting too much healthcare?
April 2, 2017 | Post
During policy debates on healthcare most people assume that more healthcare leads to better outcomes. What if that assumption is false?
Healthcare will never be affordable without action on prices
March 25, 2017 | Post
Republican reformers have repeatedly promised affordable healthcare for all Americans — doubly affordable, in fact. They promise sufficient subsidies to put premiums and out-of-pocket costs within reach of low- and middle-income consumers. At the same time, they promise that the plan will be affordable to the federal budget, even given the constraints their most conservative […]
The House GOP leadership’s health care bill is ObamaCare-Lite — or worse
March 12, 2017 | Post
This bill is a train wreck waiting to happen.
The key questions any Obamacare replacement must answer
March 4, 2017 | Post
What does it really mean to “repeal and replace” Obamacare?
Was Obamacare truly evil, or just a missed opportunity?
February 26, 2017 | Post
I do favor some role for the government. One idea for overcoming the free rider problem is mandatory health saving accounts and catastrophic insurance. (The alternative is letting people who choose not to be insured simply die when they are sick. Even if that’s the right policy, society is not willing to adopt it—so health savings accounts seem like a good second best policy.)
Profit Shouldn’t Be a Dirty Word In Drug Development
October 2, 2016 | Post
The spread of markets into the healthcare sector has allowed us to live longer than ever before.
The iPhone 7 of Healthcare
September 10, 2016 | Post
This week Apple released its iPhone 7, the latest tech marvel from Silicon Valley, which has enjoyed relative freedom from government regulation. In contrast, the healthcare industry, which is controlled by countless regulations and edicts, is floundering. Premiums are expected to rise by double-digits again next year, a problem that was supposed to be solved by […]
The Growing Politicization of Healthcare Thanks to Obamacare
August 23, 2016 | Post
Obamacare concentrates the health insurance market into politically connected health insurance firm at the expense of consumers.
A Rule Meant to Reduce Neurosurgeon's Fatigue Went Terribly Wrong
July 27, 2016 | Post
Because each physician works fewer hours, they have to hand off patients to other doctors, which can lead to mistakes even more serious than those caused by fatigue.
Efforts Redoubled to Stop Subversive Citizens Who Express Dissatisfaction with Government Health Care
April 1, 2016 | Post
April Fools! Learn Liberty is back in charge, and everything the Department of Careful Communications (DCC) said about censoring and redacting our content is moot. Learn Liberty believes that the most effective way to challenge assumptions and refine ideas in a free society is to engage in respectful but frank dialogue—conversations in which we are […]
Frontier Mentality Necessary to Fix Health Care
March 25, 2016 | Post
For decades, the debate around health care has centered on access. No question access to health care is important. But this focus has ignored — and come at the expense of — topics that are much more important, namely quality and price. In the video below, Robert Graboyes, senior research fellow at the Mercatus Center, […]
Has Obamacare Worked?
March 23, 2016 | Post
Has the Affordable Care Act, popularly known as Obamacare, worked? It’s a difficult question to answer given that there is so much politicking around the issue. In the new Learn Liberty video below, Duquesne University Professor Antony Davies cuts through the politics to give an honest assessment of the law’s performance. “Politicians promised that the […]