ISIL Freedom Network: Global > Scholarly and In-Depth Studies > Health and Welfare

Characteristics of an ideal health care system
Source: NCPA
Author: John C. Goodman
Country: United States

"Reform of the U. S. health care system is less complicated than it at first might appear. The building blocks of an ideal system are already in place. ... What is wrong with the current system is that there are too many perverse incentives." (04/01)

Does the distribution of income affect life expectancy?
Source: NCPA
Author: Gerald Scully
Country: United States

While egalitarians insist that inequality of income leads to poorer health, the evidence suggests that the level of national income is important to longevity but that how it is distributed among the population does not matter, at least in high-income countries. (7/18/00)

Managing health care with the Internet
Source: NCPA
Author: Devon Herrick
Country: United States

"The Internet is the right tool at the right time to allow Americans to manage their own health care." (7/27/00)

Can vaccines actually cause more harm than good?
Source: Medical Sentinel
Author: Dr. Franklin E. Payne
Country: United States
E-mail: medical@free-market.net

There are growing concerns that some vaccines cause more harm than good. This is a good overview of the history of vaccination and how some vaccines may not be all that they're cracked up to be, and shouldn't be mandated for children. (4/00)

The cost-effectiveness of kiling: an overview of Nazi 'euthanasia'
Source: Medical Sentinel
Author: Dr. John E. Gardella
Country: United States
E-mail: medical@free-market.net

Dr. Gardella offers a very detailed overview of the practice of "euthanasia" in Nazi Germany, which he puts in quotation marks because it wasn't assisted suicide so much as it was the killing of unwilling patients by doctors for the sake of collectivist goals. This differs fundamentally from euthanasia as it is proposed today and, therefore, the analgoy is invalid. (8/99)

Pension reform in Sweden: Lessons for American policymakers
Source: Heritage Foundation
Author: Gordon Norman, PhD and Daniel J. Mitchell, PhD
Country: United States

The Swedes have decided that personal accounts are the best way of ensuring that today's workers would enjoy a safe and comfortable retirement. (6/29/00)

Organic foods pesticide-free? it ain't necessarily so
Source: GCN
Author: Alex A Avery
Country: United States

The opponents of genetically improved food would like you to think organic foods are grown with fewer pesticides. A recent study shows otherwise. (PDF file)(2/9/01)

Smallpox prospectus
Source: Physicians for Civil Defense
Country: United States

In its ongoing "Civil Defense Perspectives" series, PCD deals with the perceptions and realities of smallpox as a public health threat, including a history of the disease. (01/31/02)

The new global villains: drug companies and 'obscene profits'
Source: CIS
Author: Ronald Bailey
Country: United States

"If we want the pharmaceutical and biotech companies to find and market new life-saving, life-enhancing drugs to cure and treat heart disease, cancer, dementia, diabetes, AIDS, and other illnesses, then it would be wise to let the sort of relatively unfettered market competition that has worked well in the past continue into the future." (11/06/01)

Sound advice
Source: Keep and Bear Arms
Author: Amin Musani
Country: United States

"Sound advice dictates that when at the gun range, by all possible means, take appropriate measures to practice safe gun handling. Wearing hearing protection (along with eye protection) falls into this category, whether you are the shooter or an observer." (3/6/03)

Alternative medicine: The healers, the hopefuls, and the dingbats
Source: Health Facts and Fears
Author: Todd Seavey
Country: United States

An "e-monograph" exploring various elements of alternative medicine, the struggle between mainstream and alternative medicine, and more.

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