John C. Goodman | National Center for Policy Analysis Linda Gorman | Independence Institute Devon Herrick | National Center for Policy Analysis Robert M. Sade | Department of Surgery and Institute of Human Values in Health Care, Medical University of South Carolina Many arguments for the superiority of other health care systems have been repeated […]

NATIONAL CENTER FOR POLICY ANALYSIS Measuring the Unfunded Obligations of European Countries Policy Report No. 319 by Jagadeesh Gokhale, PhD Europe is undergoing two major transitions. On the demographic front, many European countries are undergoing rapid population aging as their Baby Boom generations enter retirement, senior citizens live longer and fertility rates remain well below […]

Ischaemic heart disease, stroke, lower respiratory infections and chronic obstructive lung disease have remained the top major killers during the past decade. Noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) were responsible for 68% (38 million) of all deaths globally in 2012, up from 60% (31 million) in 2000. Cardiovascular diseases alone killed 2.6 million more people in 2012 than […]

Avik Roy, Forbes Staff GUEST POST WRITTEN BY Jason Clemens and Bacchus Barua Mr. Clemens is the executive vice-president and Mr. Barua is senior health economist at the Fraser Institute in Canada. The heated and often emotionally charged debate over the Affordable Care Act (aka Obamacare) hasn’t subsided despite it being the law of the land for more than […]

The Ugly Truth About Canadian Health Care David Gratzer, MD Socialized medicine has meant rationed care and lack of innovation. Small wonder Canadians are looking to the market. I was once a believer in socialized medicine. I don’t want to overstate my case: growing up in Canada, I didn’t spend much time contemplating the nuances of […]

War has undoubtedly been a fixture throughout human history, and the battles raging in the Middle East today are just one example. But is war necessarily a permanent part of human civilization? In Scientific American, science writer Michael Shermer suggests that democracies are less likely to go to war. In 1795, philosopher Immanuel Kant first […]

How to Make Medicine Safe and Cheap By Steve H. Hanke, Alexander B. Rose, and Stephen J. K. Walter Assuring that affordable, high-quality drug therapies are available in poor countries is a priority for policymakers, scholars, and advocacy groups around the world. However, there is little agreement over how to achieve that goal. Some see […]

Why Poland Matters: Do Your Shopping in Paris, but Back Polish Entrepreneurs by Julie Meyer CEO, Entrepreneur Country. I started off the week with a lot of ‘other stuff’ on my mind. I boarded the flight to Warsaw on Monday morning sort of asking myself how it was that I was going to spend my […]

NHS: The Observer Scale of clinical negligence claims is now unprecedented prompting claims that reorganisation has harmed patient care The number of litigation claims made against the NHS in a year has almost doubled under the coalition, prompting claims that the service is failing to deal with growing demands on its limited resources. The scale of the […]

Atul Gawande: The angel of good death opens up his surgery The American surgeon and bestselling author begins his Reith lectures this week on why doctors sometimes do harm. And the nation is dying to hear them The Sunday Times: 23 November 2014 As a senior surgeon who has become a bestselling author by writing […]