Free Market Medicine in 2021

One thing for certain about 2020 is that uncertainty is everywhere. What will 2021 look like for the free market medical movement? Will the political landscape move toward more centralized control of healthcare under a Biden presidency? Will a more...

Philanthropy and the Free Market in Medical Care

Russell Roberts recently interviewed Dr. Keith Smith on the EconTalk podcast where they discussed many of the current problems driving the cost of American health care. In the final segment, Roberts asked the inevitable question that all advocates of the free market...

More Healthcare Transparency, Less Government

There is a growing public awareness that many of the national problems with healthcare result from a lack of price and quality transparency. President Trump has rightly brought more attention to this problem through recent executive orders and proposed rules to...

A Truly Transparent Market in Health Care

The “market” is simply the voluntary exchange of individuals making choices to improve their lives. As such, even the force of government is not able to stop it, although government intervention can and does distort the choices people make and creates incentives that...