In February of this year, the Danish newspaper Politiken issued a formal apology for republishing a cartoon of the prophet Mohammed clad....
Editor's Note: This sidebar is part of " The Problem with ObamaCare ." June 2009 --“Comparative effectiveness” is another “hot” trend in health care policy circles. The economic stimulus bill passed by Congress and signed into law by President Obama in February included about $1.1 billion in funding for “comparative effectiveness” research. Part of that money will be used to set up a “Federal Coordinating Council for Comparative Effectiveness Research.” In theory, the government would fund comparative effectiveness research for the purpose of determining which treatments work best. This would both improve health care quality and save money by reducing the use of less effective treatments.
June 2009 --I first met Dr. Alieta Eck at the Zarephath Health Center in New Jersey, a clinic she opened with her physician-husband John
Republican Scott Brown has been elected to fill the U.S. Senate seat for Massachusetts that arch-Liberal Ted Kennedy had filled...
Dr. Edward Hudgins, who directs advocacy and is a senior scholar at The Atlas Society, took part in a recording of "The Stossel Show" on...
Question: Who coined the term/word "altruism?" Was it Kant and if so where is this information? Answer: According to the Oxford English
It’s about 2:30 a.m. when Laurent Prouvost bursts out of the pizzeria into driving rain. He races down Hickory Street after his stolen pedic
My philosophy, in essence, is the concept of man as a heroic being, with his own happiness as the moral purpose of his life, with productive
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If the great cities of the world were personified as women, you might think of Paris as fearlessly avant-garde. New York is, obviously, a...
The visit to the U.S. of Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will focus on important geo-political and economic issues. But this visit also
A half-century ago, when the American medical care system was largely free and voluntary, and people regularly called it “the world’s finest
With health care reform efforts well underway, President Obama is endeavoring to make good on his campaign pledge to “accelerate efforts to
The United States of America, a nation that was founded on principled individualism, seems poised to expand government intervention into the health care sector. A rowdy debate has been joined in newspapers across the country: one side condemns the failure of the free market to provide Americans with affordable care, while the other warns against Canadian-style waiting lists and doctor shortages. The American health care system, however, is far from a free market. As I wrote here three months ago , its problems are exaggerated and are actually due to high costs brought about by sundry government interventions. As for the other side of this debate, the Canadian system does have some serious problems. Despite what Michael Moore claimed in his “documentary” Sicko, Canadians often do wait many long hours in emergency rooms, and many long months for diagnostic tests and treatments. Practically every Canadian knows someone who has skipped across the border to pay out of pocket for a more timely MRI or surgical procedure in the U.S. At the same time, claiming that the Canadian system’s very real problems are inevitable ignores the far better results achieved in certain European countries. Of course, the best of these systems, such as France’s and Sweden’s, are more successful than Canada’s precisely because they do a better job of imitating the free market. But then, if imitating the free market delivers better results, why not let the free market provide health care directly, the way it provides clothing, cars, computers, and countless other goods and services?
Forty years ago this week, on July 16, 1969, at 9:32 a.m. EDT, Apollo 11 blasted off from Florida’s Kennedy Space Center. Four and a half...
“What is required of us now,” said President Barack Obama in his inaugural speech, “is a new era of responsibility—a recognition, on the....
In December 1989, I stopped in Moscow, on my way to Estonia as part of the first group from the West to hold a conference on free markets in
When Objectivists speak of capitalism, we mean laissez-faire capitalism, a political system based on the individual rights to life...
Sidebar to: Fashion Forward betsy fisherMy husband Lyle handed me a copy of The Ayn Reader in 2002. The essays were searing. The clarity and logic of Rand's philosophy of Objectivism cut through contradictions and dissatisfaction in a way that psychotherapy could not and did not. A copy of Atlas Shrugged had adorned my parents' book shelves, but I read the novels only after exposure to Objectivist metaphysics, epistemology, and ethics had provided a very necessary and new way to grasp reality.
More than 200 years ago, Adam Smith determined that economic self-interest advanced the wider commercial good as if led by an invisible hand
In February of this year, the Danish newspaper Politiken issued a formal apology for republishing a cartoon of the prophet Mohammed clad....
Editor's Note: This sidebar is part of " The Problem with ObamaCare ." June 2009 --“Comparative effectiveness” is another “hot” trend in health care policy circles. The economic stimulus bill passed by Congress and signed into law by President Obama in February included about $1.1 billion in funding for “comparative effectiveness” research. Part of that money will be used to set up a “Federal Coordinating Council for Comparative Effectiveness Research.” In theory, the government would fund comparative effectiveness research for the purpose of determining which treatments work best. This would both improve health care quality and save money by reducing the use of less effective treatments.
June 2009 --I first met Dr. Alieta Eck at the Zarephath Health Center in New Jersey, a clinic she opened with her physician-husband John
Republican Scott Brown has been elected to fill the U.S. Senate seat for Massachusetts that arch-Liberal Ted Kennedy had filled...
Dr. Edward Hudgins, who directs advocacy and is a senior scholar at The Atlas Society, took part in a recording of "The Stossel Show" on...
Question: Who coined the term/word "altruism?" Was it Kant and if so where is this information? Answer: According to the Oxford English
It’s about 2:30 a.m. when Laurent Prouvost bursts out of the pizzeria into driving rain. He races down Hickory Street after his stolen pedic
My philosophy, in essence, is the concept of man as a heroic being, with his own happiness as the moral purpose of his life, with productive
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If the great cities of the world were personified as women, you might think of Paris as fearlessly avant-garde. New York is, obviously, a...
The visit to the U.S. of Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will focus on important geo-political and economic issues. But this visit also
A half-century ago, when the American medical care system was largely free and voluntary, and people regularly called it “the world’s finest
With health care reform efforts well underway, President Obama is endeavoring to make good on his campaign pledge to “accelerate efforts to
The United States of America, a nation that was founded on principled individualism, seems poised to expand government intervention into the health care sector. A rowdy debate has been joined in newspapers across the country: one side condemns the failure of the free market to provide Americans with affordable care, while the other warns against Canadian-style waiting lists and doctor shortages. The American health care system, however, is far from a free market. As I wrote here three months ago , its problems are exaggerated and are actually due to high costs brought about by sundry government interventions. As for the other side of this debate, the Canadian system does have some serious problems. Despite what Michael Moore claimed in his “documentary” Sicko, Canadians often do wait many long hours in emergency rooms, and many long months for diagnostic tests and treatments. Practically every Canadian knows someone who has skipped across the border to pay out of pocket for a more timely MRI or surgical procedure in the U.S. At the same time, claiming that the Canadian system’s very real problems are inevitable ignores the far better results achieved in certain European countries. Of course, the best of these systems, such as France’s and Sweden’s, are more successful than Canada’s precisely because they do a better job of imitating the free market. But then, if imitating the free market delivers better results, why not let the free market provide health care directly, the way it provides clothing, cars, computers, and countless other goods and services?
Forty years ago this week, on July 16, 1969, at 9:32 a.m. EDT, Apollo 11 blasted off from Florida’s Kennedy Space Center. Four and a half...
“What is required of us now,” said President Barack Obama in his inaugural speech, “is a new era of responsibility—a recognition, on the....
In December 1989, I stopped in Moscow, on my way to Estonia as part of the first group from the West to hold a conference on free markets in
When Objectivists speak of capitalism, we mean laissez-faire capitalism, a political system based on the individual rights to life...
Sidebar to: Fashion Forward betsy fisherMy husband Lyle handed me a copy of The Ayn Reader in 2002. The essays were searing. The clarity and logic of Rand's philosophy of Objectivism cut through contradictions and dissatisfaction in a way that psychotherapy could not and did not. A copy of Atlas Shrugged had adorned my parents' book shelves, but I read the novels only after exposure to Objectivist metaphysics, epistemology, and ethics had provided a very necessary and new way to grasp reality.
More than 200 years ago, Adam Smith determined that economic self-interest advanced the wider commercial good as if led by an invisible hand