71 Articles tagged with: Health Care

• Public Opposition to Biotech Endangers Your Life and Health

  Do you want to be smarter, healthier, and live longer? Remarkably, a new Pew survey found that most Americans answer “No!” if it requires using certain new technologies. This is a wakeup call for scientists, Silicon Valley entrepreneurs, trans… Read Article

• Will Banning Genetic Engineering Kill You?

  One headline reads “British baby given genetically-edited immune cells to beat cancer in world first.” Another headline reads “Top biologists debate ban on gene-editing.” It’s a literal life and death debate.

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• Objectivism in Substance Abuse Treatment

  At the heart of Objectivism is the claim that this philosophy is more than a theory. This philosophy is a way of life—a successful life. In his current job, Nathaniel Branch has been applying the principles of Objectivism successfully in the sub… Read Article

• Control of Pregnancy Means Control of Women

  How involved should government be in women’s pregnancies? A case from Wisconsin speaks powerfully about the dangers of personhood policy.

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• Eggs, Global Warming, and Science

  The arguments for man-made global warming remind me of the argument that eating eggs causes heart disease. 

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• Dallas Buyers Club Says "It's Your Life!"

   Congratulations to Matthew McConaughey for winning the best actor Oscar for Dallas Buyers Club! The film and his fine performance highlight a simple, fundamental moral principle that is being lost in America: It’s your life.

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• Obamacare: Charity is now Robbery

  The Wall Street Journal reported today [pay site] that the Department of Health and Human Services is urging hospitals and pharmaceutical companies not to buy Obamacare benefits (aka “health insurance”) for poor individuals. Why? Because the in… Read Article

• Understanding Obamacare

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• The Supreme Court's decision on ObamaCare (video)

  Atlas Society founder David Kelley is interviewed by Jan Helfeld about the Supreme Court's decision on "Obamacare." 

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• It's Not About Contraceptives

  In the furor over requiring employer-sponsored health insurance to cover contraceptives, access to birth control is not the issue, and religious freedom is only part of the picture.

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• ObamaCare: Rx for Crisis

  When people think of Medicare, they usually think of the government health insurance program for seniors over age 65. They may even recall that the program also extends to the disabled who are under 65. Few, though, see it as a program that big … Read Article

• Behind the Scenes at a Physician-Owned Specialty Hospital

  Sidebar article to:  ObamaCare: Rx for Crisis

  March 7, 2012 -- The incision Dr. Thomas Tkach makes into his patient’s knee is almost like clockwork. It is Friday morning, and within minutes Dr. Tkach will be doing a knee replacement on a pat… Read Article

• Behind the Scenes at a General Hospital

  Sidebar article to:  ObamaCare: Rx for Crisis

    Editor’s Note: Dr. Eric Logan and First Presbyterian Hospital are pseudonyms, used at the request of the doctor interviewed for this article. The photos accompanying this article are stock pho… Read Article

• Obama's Swine Flu Altruism

  October 28, 2009 -- The morally ugly nature of actual altruism was on display when Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius recently declared that one in ten doses of the Swine Flu vaccine that were purchased with American taxpayer … Read Article

• Now Doctors Shrug

  March 2003 -- In her 1957 novel Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand imagined a monstrous world in which the laws and the political regime, rather than protecting productive individuals, actually make it easy and legal for the rapacious and the envious to ste… Read Article

• Is There a Right to Health Care?

   Editor's Note: The following is the text of a speech delivered by David Kelley at multiple venues in 1993-94. Its theme remains relevant today, especially with the advent of "Obamacare."

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• Al Capone Health Care

  The Obama administration wants no one to focus on the process involved in the production and passage of its health care takeover—not that it wants us to focus much on the substance, either. After all, politics always involves some trade-offs a… Read Article

• Into the Labyrinth

  Editor's Note: This sidebar is part of " The Problem with ObamaCare ."

  June 2009 --I first met Dr. Alieta Eck at the Zarephath Health Center in New Jersey, a clinic she opened   with her physician-husband John… Read Article

• Sidebar: What is "Comparative Effectiveness Research"?

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• Scott Brown's Pro-Life Victory

  America still stands for achievement.

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