The Political Assassination of a Prescription Drug
By Richard E. Ralston
December 20, 2010
Politics often supersedes medical science as the determining factor behind the Food and Drug Administration's granting or denying of approval of prescription drugs. This is the result of a long-term trend that has come sharply into focus with the FDA's handling of the diabetes drug Avandia. . . . [ full article ]
Health Care on Election Day
By Richard E. Ralston
November 1, 2010
If you care about your health care and what the government is doing to it, you might want to consider a list of questions to ask yourself and candidates before you vote. This election is very important, and we won't get many more chances to defend our rights to manage our own care. . . . [ full article ]
Ripping Health Care out of Your Own Hands
By Jason Sagall
October 13, 2010
The federal government's Web site HealthCare.gov extols the trillion-dollar Patient Protection and (anything but) Affordable Care Act as only government propaganda can. It offers boldface contradictions and evasions in defiance of one's very sanity. Its apparent purpose is to appeal to the worst in people, inviting them to cling to an entitlement mentality and pretend that part of government's job is to save them from the necessity of dealing with reality. . . . [ full article ]
Dependence Day
By Richard E. Ralston
July 4, 2010
Independence Day is our most endangered holiday. We should celebrate it while we still can. The entire concept of independence — of autonomous citizens making their own choices in the pursuit of their own happiness — is under attack. The American war for independence was not over in the 18th Century but wages on today. At the moment, independence is not winning. . . . [ full article ]
The Government Boot on Your Doctor's Neck
By Richard E. Ralston
June 29, 2010
We live in an age when the secretary of the Interior and the White House press secretary proudly and publicly proclaim that they will keep their "boot on the neck" of an oil company. This new manifestation of "hope" and "change" is ominous at a time when the government is rapidly escalating its involvement and control of all aspects of American society. That is especially true in the health care arena, but anyone with a neck should be concerned. . . . [ full article ]
Constitutional Health Care
By Richard E. Ralston
June 14, 2010
The writers of the U.S. Constitution were very much aware of the need to set firm and specific limits on the powers of government. Hundreds of years of the British Monarchy, and study of the failures of republican forms of government as far back as ancient Greece and Rome, informed their mature understanding of the perils of government power. They were convinced that, unless government was restricted to only those few functions that government alone can perform, its powers would inexorably grow until it controlled everything in America. They were right. . . . [ full article ]
Redeeming Reform
By Richard E. Ralston
May 10, 2010
Does American history move in only one direction—toward government domination of every detail of our daily lives? Did we reach a high-water mark of government power when ObamaCare was signed into law? Or was that just the crest of a wave that will sweep away the few remaining decisions we can still make about the things that are most important to us? The answer may begin to take form this year. . . . [ full article ]
A Health Care Parable
By Jason sagall
May 8, 2010
Your wife is stricken with a terrible medical condition. Her insurance benefits just ran out. You need money for her treatment.
You go to your next-door neighbor and tell him about your wife's misfortune. You demand $5,000. . . . [ full article ]
Profits Are for People
By Richard E. Ralston
March 25, 2010
Those who advocate for government controls in medicine cry, "People, not profits." They say profits are unacceptable in medicine because our health is so important. But it is precisely because our health is so important that profits must be vigorously defended. . . . [ full article ]
Summit of Fantasy
By Richard E. Ralston
March 4, 2010
The President's summit on health care revealed major schisms between public policy and reality. Those who feel that they must keep repeating to Americans that their health care is "broken" overlook a more fundamental problem. . . . [ full article ]
Ideology Indispensable for Health Care Reform
By Jason Sagall
February 22, 2010
President Obama will most likely use his upcoming health care summit on February 25 to admonish Congress to check their ideologies at the door, narrow their approach and compromise. The summit may signal a new low in the intellectual integrity of our leadership. . . . [ full article ]
Health Care Reform: What's Next?
By Richard E. Ralston
February 15, 2010
There is now a pause in the inept debate on health care in Congress. After a year of struggle, some comfort might be taken from the fact that neither of the monstrosities passed by the House or the Senate has become law. . . . [ full article ]
Three Big Lies Behind Government-Run Health Care
By Jason Sagall
January 25, 2010
How do you get away with legislation for $1 trillion in spending through increased taxes, cuts in Medicare, penalties on employers for not bowing to government mandates, and penalties — or even jail time — on every American for not carrying health insurance? Politicians count on three Big Lies. . . . [ full article ]
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