ISIL Freedom Network: Global > Introductions and FAQs > Health and Welfare
- Escape From Responsibility
Source: Future of Freedom Foundation
Author: Sheldon Richman
City: Fairfax, State: VA, Country: United States
E-mail: info@fff.org
- "The more government is involved in 'safety net' activities, the more plausible excuses it will have to regulate people's behavior." (5/96)
- Managed Care: A Physician Assistant Tells It Like It Is
Source: Association of American Physicians and Surgeons
Author: Jim Morris, PA-C
Country: United States
- A former HMO salesman, this PA underwent conversion and now describes the price doctors and patients truly pay for managed care. (May 6, 1995)
- Death by Regulation: The Price We Pay for the FDA
Source: International Society for Individual Liberty
Author: Dr. Mary J. Ruwart
Country: United States
E-mail: isil@isil.org
- ISIL pamphlet by "Healing Our World" author Ruwart focuses on the deaths estimated to have resulted from FDA regulations and unapproved drugs.
- Health Freedom News and Publications
Source: Institute for Health Freedom
Country: United States
E-mail: ihf@free-market.net
- A collection of policy studies, research and opinion pieces from IHF President Sue Blevins. She has written for the Cato Institute and the National Center for Policy Analysis, among others.
- APPS Position Paper on Genetic Testing
Source: Association of American Physicians and Surgeons, Inc
Country: United States
- AAPS finds that genetic testing is not fundamentally different from other tests or examinations.
- Why Haven't Government Officials Notified Individuals Who Received Tainted Blood?
Source: Health Freedom Watch
Country: United States
- A congressional report states that more than one million Americans received blood from donors who subsequently tested positive for Hepatitis C. Yet they have not been notified. (2/99)
- HMOs' Rise Driven by Government, Not Market
Source: Health Freedom Watch
Author: Twila Brase
Country: United States
- Examines whether increased government regulation is the "cure" for an ailing HMO system. (1/99)
- Anthrax vaccine immunization should be voluntary for military
Source: AAPS
Author: Jane M. Orient, M.D.
Country: United States
- Informed consent must be observed even by the U.S. military. And, no consent is informed when based on shoddy science. (4/99)
- The Confession of a Managed Care Medical Director
Source: Citizens' Council on Health Care
Author: Linda Peeno
Country: United States
- As heard by a Congressional Subcommittee, this testimony reveals the unethical practices of managed health care. (5/30/96)
- Focus on World Health Organization
Source: IEA
Author: Julian Morris
Country: United States
- Increasingly pronouncements by the World Health Organization are coming to displace policy-making on the local and national level. (2000)
- Let's put organs on the free market
Source: TLKnapp.Net
Author: Thomas L. Knapp
Country: United States
E-mail: tlknapp@free-market.net
- The case, in brief, for increasing the transplant organ supply through market reform. (2000)
- A reply to my critics in re organ donation
Source: TLKnapp.Net
Author: Thomas L. Knapp
Country: United States
E-mail: tlknapp@free-market.net
- An extended argument, dealing with objections to Knapp's "Let's put organs on the free market." (2000)
- Nutrient enhanced water: All washed up?
Source: Health Facts and Fears
Author: Sheila Raju
Country: United States
- "'Enhanced' water provides a less-caloric alternative to many other beverages, but these products provide no significant health benefits for those who already eat healthy, well-balanced diets." (6/13/03)
- The radon fraud
Source: Lew Rockwell.com
Author: Bill Sardi
Country: United States
- "The problem with the EPA's radon gas mortality numbers is that they aren't a count of dead bodies, they are mathematical extrapolations. .... While the EPA continues to warn the public of the potential dangers posed by radon gas, in fact, low-dose radiation appears to be beneficial to human health, simulating the immune system." Very interesting commentary. (11/17/03)
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