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How to Expand Health Care Choice and Improve Access for Working Families
Source: Heritage Foundation
Author: Daniel H. Johnson Jr., MD
Country: United States

Every American should have access to affordable health insurance coverage, says former AMA president Johnson, yet the number of uninsured is growing. (7/12/99)

FDA approval: Better late than never
Source: Competitive Enterprise Institute
Author: Julie DeFalco
City: Washington, State: DC, Country: United States

If the FDA approves a therapy which will start saving lives tomorrow, then how many people died yesterday waiting for the government to act? (3/97)

Vaccines: Public Safety and Personal Choice
Source: Association of American Physicians and Surgeons
Author: Jane M. Orient, M.D.
Country: United States

This testimony before the U.S. House of Representatives explains why weighing the benefits and risks of vaccines should be left in the hands of patients and not government. (8/3/99)

The Battle with the FDA for Patients' Rights: Will it Ever End?
Source: Institute for Health Freedom
Author: Antonio C. Martinez II
Country: United States

Should life-and-death decisions be left to the terminally ill patient or to the FDA? (7/99)

Official vaccine policy flawed
Source: Association of American Physicians and Surgeons, Inc.
Author: Roger Schlafly
Country: United States

Author claims vaccination policies are a twisted web of drug company profits, socialistic do-gooders, and a federal government hungry to manage the health care industry. (5/99)

How the Medicare Bureaucracy Threatens Patient Privacy
Source: Heritage Foundatoin
Author: Robert E. Moffitt, Paul Applebaum, Kent M Brown, Jim Pyles & Ronald Wel
Country: United States

The Health Care Financing Administration (HCFA), the regulatory agency that runs the Medicare program, proposed a rule to force 10,000 home health-care agencies to report sensitive personal information on patients and to transmit this information to a federal database and, eventually, to state databases. Under the proposed rule, this would take place without the patient's knowledge (10/15/99)

Writing about health risks: Challenges and strategies
Source: American Council on Science and Health
Author: Michael Kamrin, Ph.D., and Marilynn Larkin, M.A.
Country: United States

ACSH provides this handbook "to facilitate the process of reporting on health risks." Its focus is on providing tips on writing accurate and balance stories that "will assist readers in making reasonable decisions about their health." (1/26/00)

Patients' bill of rights
Source: Association of American Physicians and Surgeons
Country: United States
E-mail: aaps@free-market.net

Here is a real patients' bill of rights, which includes patients' right to: "use their own resources to purchase the care of their choice" or "to refuse medical treatment even if it is recommended by their physician."

Think you know what health care reforms Hispanics want? Think again.
Source: Pacific Research Institute
Author: Naomi Lopez Bauman
Country: United States

While politicians generally assume that Hispanics want increased government control over their health care, polls indicate otherwise. (4/4/00)

Policy medicine versus policy quackery: economists against the FDA
Source: Knowledge, Technology & Policy
Author: Daniel B. Klein
Country: United States
E-mail: dklein@scu.edu

A compendium of quotes from economists opposed to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). A very good comeback to the question, "How could you possibly be against the FDA?"

Adequate nutrition on less than $2 per day
Source: NCPA/Reuters
Country: United States

According to researchers, in the United States, a healthy diet need cost no more than $2 per day per adult. (4/21/00)

Enhacing access via medical freedom -- call it MSA empowerment
Source: Medical Sentinel
Author: Dr. Miguel A. Faria Jr.
Country: United States
E-mail: medical@free-market.net

Dr. Faria explores how medical savings accounts (MSAs) could help free the medical industry, give power back to patients, and hold down costs. (8/00)

Private contracting -- everyone's answer to medical liberty
Source: Medical Sentinel
Author: Dr. James P. Weaver
Country: United States
E-mail: medical@free-market.net

Dr. Weaver, president of the pro-liberty Association of American Physicians and Surgeons, argues here that government price-fixing of medicine can only be overcome by one solution: a free market in health care, achieved through private contracting. (8/99)

The tyranny of public health
Source: Medical Sentinel
Author: Jacob Sullum
Country: United States
E-mail: medical@free-market.net

Sullum, author of "For Your Own Good," dissects the public-health movement and how it changed its focus from communicable, infectious diseases to smoking and non-medical issues such as gun violence. "Public health," Sullum writes, "is inconsistent with the right to be left alone. Of all the risk factors for disease or injury, it seems, freedom is the most pernicious." (6/99)

The FDA, the EPA, and the exile of Yankee ingenuity
Source: Doctors for Disaster Preparedness Newsletter
Country: United States
E-mail: ddp@free-market.net

Article discusses the negative effects that the EPA and the FDA, in particular, have upon the practice of medicine in the United States. They hamper ingenuity and efficiency, hold up life-saving medicines, and chase off the most talented to other countries.

Questions and answers about uninsured children
Source: National Center for Policy Analysis
Author: Merrill Matthews Jr.
Country: United States

Q&A examines the supposed crisis of children without health insurance and what can be done to improve poor children's access to health care.

Medical savings accounts give patients power
Source: Institute for Health Freedom
Author: Sue Blevins
Country: United States
E-mail: feedback@forhealthfreedom.org

A good, brief overview of medical savings accounts (MSAs): how they work, why they save money and increase patient choice.

The medical monopoly: your tax dollars limit the competition
Source: Institute for Health Freedom/Alternative Medicine Digest
Author: Richard Leviton
Country: United States
E-mail: feedback@forhealthfreedom.org

Examines how licensure laws have ensured a medical monopoly which keeps health care costs artificially high, stifles innovation and restricts access to alternative medicine. (4/96)

Libertarian solutions: want more compassionate medicine? A 'profit motive' helps deliver it
Source: LP News
Author: Tom G. Palmer
Country: United States
E-mail: George.Getz@hq.lp.org

"For-profit medicine must be a terrible and immoral thing. After all, I hear it attacked as such all the time," writes Palmer, a libertarian scholar. "But I just got a new view of the issue when I found myself having to visit two hospitals -- one for-profit, the other nonprofit -- for relief from a painful and crippling condition." (01/01)

Stockpiled drugs may not work against next germ attack
Source: Hudson Institute
Author: Betsy McCaughey
Country: United States

"Making individualized vaccines for each disease is not a practical approach to defending against bioterrorism, according to Dr. Stephen Morse, director of the Center for Public Health Preparedness at Columbia University. The federal government’s current emphasis on developing and stockpiling vaccines specifically for smallpox and anthrax is inadequate." (11/01)

Model Emergency Health Powers Act (MEHPA) turns Governors into dictators
Source: Wellness Center
Author: Dr. John Mercola
Country: United States

"States can and should improve their ability to respond to disaster, including bioterrorism. However, having the Governor play doctor and dictator is not the right response." Action steps and analysis.

Lifesharers frequently asked questions
Source: Lifesharers
Country: United States

Frequently asked questions about Lifesharers,a voluntary network of organ and tissue donors.

Facts about the uninsured, part 2
Source: NCPPR
Author: staff
Country: United States

"[C]ontrary to what may be commonly assumed, the uninsured are not the same as the unemployed." (6/03)

Time for a sensible medicare drug benefit
Source: Heritage Foundation
Author: Joseph R. Antos, Grace-Marie Turner, and Robert E Moffit
Country: United States

What is the best way to deliver the so-called "drug benefit"? The authors advocate a prescription drug discount card.

How Lifesharers works
Source: Lifesharers
Country: United States

Informarion on how Lifesharers, a voluntary network of organ and tissue donors works, and, information on how the nationwide organ distribution system works.

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