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Obama Isn't Fooling Anyone
The president is no deregulator
David Harsanyi
January 19, 2011
A Physician's Take on the "Death Panel" Revelation
The truth about end-of-life counseling
Jeffrey A. Singer
January 5, 2011
The ObamaCare Fraud
The law will penalize doctors to pay patients and penalize patients to pay doctors.
Shikha Dalmia
December 31, 2010
Follow the Bouncing Buck
The year's highlights in blame shifting
Jacob Sullum
December 29, 2010
The Never-Ending "Business of Centralization"
What’s wrong with placing a few limits on federal power?
Damon W. Root
December 22, 2010
An Unhealthy Mandate
Does ObamaCare violate the Constitution?
Steve Chapman
December 16, 2010
Clause Escape
Are you committing interstate commerce by doing nothing?
Jacob Sullum
December 15, 2010
And This Is the Thanks Obama Gets?
Progressives abandon the president
David Harsanyi
December 8, 2010
Tax Exemption for Health Benefits On Its Last Legs?
David Godow
November 30, 2010, 9:10am
A Simple Way to Improve Medicare
End the "doc fix" and allow balance-billing
Jeffrey A. Singer
November 25, 2010
The Case Against Motorcycle Helmet Laws
This is not a public health issue.
Steve Chapman
November 25, 2010
Doctors’ Orders
The government’s war on medical “price fixing” squelches speech without helping consumers.
S.M. Oliva
November 22, 2010
No, It's Not a Messaging Problem
The real trouble with ObamaCare
David Harsanyi
November 17, 2010
Stop Smearing Federalism
From consumer advocacy to gay marriage, liberals routinely embrace federalism. So why do they keep comparing it to slavery?
Damon W. Root
November 10, 2010
Attack of the Food Police
Why the government has no business banning Happy Meals
Steve Chapman
November 8, 2010
Does ObamaCare Reduce Health Care Spending?
The short answer is no.
Veronique de Rugy
November 5, 2010
Arizona Voters Support Health Care Freedom; Reject Affirmative Action, Card Check and more
Leonard Gilroy
November 3, 2010, 1:12am
Entitlement Reform? Not Their Cup of Tea
Tea Party candidates are backing off from serious spending cuts
Shikha Dalmia
November 1, 2010
Plastic Water Bottles Won't Hurt You
Ignore the junk science and follow the facts.
John Stossel
October 28, 2010
The Amazing Elastic Commerce Clause
The individual health insurance mandate tugs on an overstretched federal power.
Jacob Sullum
October 20, 2010
ObamaCare’s Unseen Costs
Taxes will go up under the new health care law—and the costs will be more than you think.
Peter Suderman
October 15, 2010
Regulating Personal Genomics to Death
The FDA threat to direct to consumer genetic testing.
Ronald Bailey
October 12, 2010
Congress Can't Repeal Economics
More evidence against ObamaCare rolls in.
John Stossel
October 7, 2010
From Yuck to Yippee!
What this year's Nobel Prize for a test tube baby pioneer tells us about the moral endorsement of technology.
Ronald Bailey
October 5, 2010
How to Slash the State
14 ways to dismantle a monstrous government, one program at a time
October 5, 2010
ObamaCare's First Major Casualties
Why the new health care law is bad for gays and aliens
Shikha Dalmia
October 4, 2010
Crass Market
How ObamaCare’s exchanges undermine quality health care.
Peter Suderman
September 30, 2010
Top 20 California Bills to Veto List Released
Adam Summers
September 16, 2010, 1:12pm
Rogue States
The revolt against ObamaCare
Peter Suderman
September 14, 2010
Utah Report Gets it Wrong on Hospital Privatization
Despite finding cost savings and expanded care through privatization, report relies on faulty logic to recommend against it
Leonard Gilroy
September 10, 2010
Seven Empty Promises About ObamaCare
The president is still struggling to sell his plan.
Peter Suderman
September 9, 2010
Where Are the New Jobs?
Why bigger government isn't working
John Stossel
August 26, 2010
Inconvenient Facts About Stem-Cell Research
Understanding Judge Royce Lamberth's recent decision
Steve Chapman
August 26, 2010
Egg Recall Hatches More Regulations
More FDA regulations don't always mean greater food safety.
Ronald Bailey
August 24, 2010
Paying More for Less
Medicaid fails taxpayers and patients.
Peter Suderman
August 6, 2010
Mercatus: Federal Income Taxes Would Have to More Than Double to Maintain Medicare, Social Security Benefits
Adam Summers
July 31, 2010, 10:36pm
Growing Pains
ObamaCare won't stop rising health care costs.
Peter Suderman
July 30, 2010
Rationing Debate
The case for and against President Obama’s newest health care administrator.
Peter Suderman
July 15, 2010
Parasitic Tort Lawyers
The trouble with trial lawyers
John Stossel
July 8, 2010
Temporary Funding Forever?
What happens when the federal government finally shuts short-term money down?
Peter Suderman
June 30, 2010
The Vanity Tax
The trouble with the government's new tax on indoor tanning services
Greg Beato
June 17, 2010
Obama’s Glamour Problem
Former reason editor Virginia Postrel on the economics of health care and the intersection of glamour and politics.
Ted Balaker
June 1, 2010
The Rise of Consumer-Driven Care
Will ObamaCare put a stop to the most promising way of controlling health care costs?
Peter Suderman
May 28, 2010
Louisiana Legislature Considering Anti-Privatization Bills, Part 2: Psychiatric Hospital Edition
Leonard Gilroy
May 28, 2010, 2:07pm
Who's Afraid of Synthetic Biology?
Don't let fears about frankenmicrobes halt promising research.
Ronald Bailey
May 25, 2010
Is the Cure Worse than the Disease?
A month after passage, ObamaCare is already failing.
Peter Suderman
May 14, 2010
Paul Ryan: Radical or Sellout?
The GOP’s rising fiscal policy star is too cautious for radical economic reform yet too radical for his own party.
Peter Suderman
May 10, 2010
Health Care Reform to Bend the Cost Curve Down? Medicare Actuary Says No.
Leonard Gilroy
April 23, 2010, 10:17am
Down the Health Care Wormhole
How ObamaPelosiCare will saddle future generations with a public policy disaster
Terry Michael
April 19, 2010
Nursing Our Way Out of a Doctor Shortage
Why it's time to loosen the regulations on nurse practitioners
Steve Chapman
April 19, 2010