Baby Carter Cookson – Tragic, But Celebrate What Didn’t Happen
Carter Cookson, the weeks old baby who needed a heart transplant has died - this is tragic, of course it is, but we should...
Mungau Dain’s Death From Infection – That’s How That Simple Life Ends All Too...
Far too many of us moderns eulogise the simple life. The thatched hut in the tropical village, chickens scratching in the Sun, the simple...
Memo To NYC – If Health Care’s Expensive Now See What It Costs When...
Bill de Blasio has announced that health care insurance in New York City is now going to be free to all regardless of immigration...
To Stagger In Amazement – Higher Prices Lead To Lower Health Care Consumption
It should be possible to predict this from those first couple of page sin the Econ 101 textbook. That's it's not generally agreed shows...
Scottish NHS Rations By Queuing – Why Not Do It By Price Instead?
Anything and everything in this world - anything which is an economic good at least - is rationed in some manner. That's rather what...
Hospital Parking Charges Rip Off – But Why Charge At All?
Hospitals are rather killing off that idea of the National Health Service being free to all by charging inordinate sums for parking at them....
Public Health England To Make Illegal McDonald’s Big Mac
Public Health England, PHE, has decided that McDonald's Big Mac should no longer be legally available in England. At least, that's the implication of...
Of Course We Should Allow Payments For Surrogacy
Al Roth gained his Nobel in part for the study of repugnant transactions. One such being things like payments for body parts - kidneys...
Reducing Regulation Increases Investment – Who Knew?
Sadly this paper makes a small mistake. The effect they've found, the causes, yes, all fine. It's the description of the regulatory change which...
Obamacare Is Unconstitutional – Yes, That’s The Current State Of Play
Obamacare was a rather bad way of trying to deal with whatever ails the American health care system. Perhaps the most cogent criticism is...