Anti-Regulation

Anti-Regulation Links

• Socialized Medicine Leaves a Bad Taste in Patients' Mouths Bad food in Canadian Hospitals is symptomatic of the problems of a single-payer health care system.
  
• Association of American Physicians and Surgeons A non-partisan professional association of physicians, dedicated to the highest ethical standards of the Oath of Hippocrates and to preserving the sanctity of the patient-physician relationship and the practice of private medicine.
  
• A Medicaid Voucher Proposal for Colorado In this issue paper from the Independence Institute, the reasons for the failure of the Medicaid Program are explored, a solution to the problem through privatization is proposed, and alternative proposed reforms of medical care in Colorado are critically evaluated.
  
• Institute for Health Freedom Established to bring the issues of personal health freedom to the forefront of America's health policy debate, IHF's mission is to present the ethical and economic case for strengthening personal health freedom.
  
• International Advocates for Health Freedom The founder, John Hammell, has been fighting for health freedom for 10 years, and first got involved with alternative medicine after recovering from a life threatening illness via a suppressed alternative treatment (orthomolecular medicine) after mainstream methods almost killed him. He believes it to be highly immoral for anyone to try to restrict the availability of herbs and supplements or to do anything which would hamper consumer access.
  
• The Dangers of Socialized Medicine This collection of essays makes the moral and practical case for a complete free market in healthcare.
  
• Citizens' Council on Health Care A citizens' resource for designing the future of health care.
  
• National Center for Policy Analysis: Health Care Issues The NCPA has one of the largest collections of papers and articles on health care policy online.
  
• Galen Institute A research organization focusing on free-market health care reform and tax policy.
  
• Health Care Reform Citizens advocate for health care reform in the United States. Not affiliated with health industry.
  
• Council for Affordable Health Insurance Promotes a free-market approach to reform, and works to preserve freedom of choice and quality of care while addressing the issue of affordability.
  
• Cato Institute Health & Welfare Studies This list of online papers from the Cato Institute includes studies on demonstrating the practical superiority of Medical Savings Accounts over managed health care type plans, moving the FDAs pharmaceutical and medical device approval responsibilities into the private sector, and allowing Americans to opt-out of Medicare and into private insurance arrangements.
  
• Americans for Free Choice in Medicine Promotes the philosophy of individual rights, personal responsibility and free market economics in the health care industry.
  
• The Heritage Foundation Publications Library: Health Care Reform
  
• Citizens for a Sound Economy: Health Care Reform Just three years after the American public rejected government-run health care, Democrats and Republicans in Congress are taking away consumers' control over their own health care decisions. CSE campaigns for consumer choice in health care.
  
• Is There a Right to Health Care? An article on health care and welfare by David Kelley of the Institute for Objectivist Studies.
  
• Health Scare: Six Myths about the U.S. Health Care System an issue paper by Linda Gorman from the Independence Institute.