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September 20, 2011 | Wall Street Journal
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More Transparency, Better Health Care

by George P. Shultz (Thomas W. and Susan B. Ford Distinguished Fellow; Chair, Energy Policy Task Force; and member of the Working Group on Economic Policy), Arnold Milstein, and Robert Krughoff
Fantasy baseball managers have far more data to evaluate players for their teams than patients and referring doctors have in matters affecting life and death...
September 14, 2011 | National Review Online
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Infant Mortality: A Deceptive Statistic

by Scott W. Atlas (David and Joan Traitel Senior Fellow and member of the Working Group on Health Care Policy)
Critics of U.S. health care disseminate misinformation cloaked as data...
September 11, 2011 | EconLog
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The Economics of Judicial Conflict of Interest

by David R. Henderson (Research Fellow)
Jeffrey Toobin implicitly makes a strong case that may surprise his fans...
September 6, 2011 | Creators Syndicate
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Two Different Worlds: Part II

by Thomas Sowell (Rose and Milton Friedman Senior Fellow on Public Policy)
You are free to take your life's savings and gamble it away in a casino, if you want to — but you are not free to use your life's savings to save your life...
August 23, 2011 | e21, Economic Policies for the 21st Century
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Job One for the Budget Super-Committee: Cut the New Health Entitlement's Cost

by Charles Blahous (Research Fellow)
I offer the view that no deficit-reduction agreement can credibly be called balanced if it fails to do one simple and necessary thing: cut the projected cost of new spending enacted in last year’s health care law...
August 17, 2011 | Forbes.com
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Fat-uous Approaches To the Obesity Problem

by Henry I. Miller (Robert Wesson Fellow in Scientific Philosophy and Public Policy) and Jeff Stier
Activists, local government bureaucrats and federal officials continue to come up with dubious ways to promote health and reduce obesity. These approaches are either supported by meager or conflicting evidence or they are so intrusive that Americans will find them intolerable...
August 9, 2011 | Advancing a Free Society
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Government by Waiver: No Child Left Behind Follows the Health Care Precedent

by Richard A. Epstein (Peter and Kirsten Bedford Senior Fellow and member of the Property Rights, Freedom, and Prosperity Task Force)
The only reason we have to worry about the waivers is that we have committed ourselves to legislative programs that are beyond our grasp...
August 3, 2011 | Project Syndicate
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Tropics of Cancer?

by Henry I. Miller (Robert Wesson Fellow in Scientific Philosophy and Public Policy)
Many people in poor countries die from cancers that are preventable or treatable in wealthier societies, but they often succumb to other scourges as well, such as infectious diseases. So what could and should be done about this conundrum...?
July 27, 2011 | Defining Ideas (Hoover Institution)
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The FDA’s War on Drugs

by David R. Henderson (Research Fellow) and Charles L. Hooper (Hoover Visiting Fellow)
When it comes to off-label uses, government policy is harming sick people...
July 13, 2011 | Defining Ideas (Hoover Institution)
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Nanny Runs Amok

by Henry I. Miller (Robert Wesson Fellow in Scientific Philosophy and Public Policy)
Social engineering, Obamacare-style...