Topic: Healthcare

Economic Education, Free Markets, Healthcare, Public Choice and Public Policy

Social Capital Mediates COVID-19 Vaccinations

– April 20, 2022

“In Tocqueville’s visit to America, he is struck by an ‘equality of conditions’—his approach to social capital. Perhaps we should pay more attention to the equality of values people hold dear. Public health is important, but so is personal freedom.” ~ Byron B. Carson III

Authoritarianism, Crisis, Government, Healthcare

It Takes a Village of Bureaucrats to Implement Despotism

– March 17, 2022

“In America today, a decentralization movement is growing, advocating greater local control. Continued erosion of public trust in federal agencies and government experts will hasten that movement.” ~ Barry Brownstein

Authoritarianism, Crisis, Government, Healthcare

Ozymaskias

– February 27, 2022

“Ozymaskias is crumbling, but it’s not enough. These horrible, unscientific, illiberal, anti-human mandates must be sunk forever in the desert sands of history along with the rest of their Covid-excused tyrannies.” ~ Jon Sanders

Crisis, Government, Healthcare, Public Choice and Public Policy, Science

Vaccine Cronyism

– February 21, 2022

“As revealed through various documents well after OWS, we know the agreements limit vaccine developers not selected for OWS from expedited clinical trials and a transparent process for authorization.” ~ Raymond J. March

Crisis, Government, Healthcare, Regulation

What An Economist Knows About Crony Vaccines

– February 20, 2022

“With effective treatments, fear would be diminished, and vaccines would be judiciously deployed to those who demand them. Blocking discovery, via crony liability shields, costs lives.” ~ Barry Brownstein

Crisis, Government, Healthcare

The Hepatological Toll of NPIs Surfaces

– February 19, 2022

“The effects of treating human beings like insects in mason jars with holes poked in the lid are coming to light. We cannot repair the damage done, but we can highlight and expose those who were responsible for the remainder of their waking days.” ~ Peter C. Earle

Crisis, Government, Healthcare, Public Choice and Public Policy, Science

FDA Continues to Meddle With Covid-19 Treatments

– February 18, 2022

“When the FDA and other agencies curtail private efforts to battle Covid-19, including limiting the use of existing and established treatments, we place our trust in less capable hands.” ~ Raymond J. March

Crisis, Economic Education, Government, Healthcare

The Organ Shortage

– February 10, 2022

“From an economic perspective the decades-long organ shortage has a simple cause: paying organ donors is illegal. Price controls predictably produce shortages.” ~ Daniel Sutter

Crisis, Government, Healthcare, History

FSLICing America’s Public Health Bureaucracies

– February 10, 2022

“When Americans have to trust agency X, be it a deposit insurer or a public health authority, and X screws up so badly that it can no longer be trusted, X may, and should, be eliminated.” ~ Robert E. Wright

Crisis, Economic Education, Government, Healthcare

What Economics Can Tell Us About Mandating Vaccines

– February 9, 2022

“The question as to whether the vaccine should be mandatory begins with economics. What economics clearly tells us is that, at its root, this question revolves around property rights.” ~ Antony Davies

Crisis, Government, Healthcare, Science

CDC Spreads Misinformation on Masking, Not Science

– February 7, 2022

“The American people are being misled, and they know it. Their trust in the CDC is falling. The CDC’s actions have completely bewildered the American people. If it continues down this road, it will only erode what little credibility it has left.” ~ David Waugh & Amelia Janaskie

Crisis, Economic Education, Government, Healthcare, Public Choice and Public Policy

Covid-19’s Ratchet Effect is Becoming Endemic

– February 7, 2022

“Crises end, but newly designated powers and increased budgets governments receive throughout seldom end with them. Instead, government power exhibits a ratchet effect, never diminishing to pre-crisis levels.” ~ Raymond J. March