“Many Africans lack access to essential medicines. There are myriad reasons for this: poverty, lack of awareness about the need for treatment, confusion over which drugs to take, technical and logistical challenges in procurement and distribution combined with a general lack of local healthcare staff and infrastructure, among other cultural and political factors. [...]

A fable of reinventing the same failed policy and expecting different results:
“Want a preview of ObamaCare in action? Sneak a look at what has happened in Maine. In 2003, the state to great fanfare enacted its own version of universal health care. Democratic Governor John Baldacci signed the plan into law with a bevy [...]

John Blundell, a board member here at Atlas and director of the Institute for Economic Affairs offers an excellent book review of  Noble Vision, by Gen LaGreca. A book I imagine he picked up at the Atlas Experience book exchange. Each year at this event Atlas encourages guests to bring a book on any topic, [...]

Last week, economist Thomas Sowell of the Hoover Institution at Stanford University (California) weighed in on the healthcare debate with some wise words for policymakers.  Writing for the National Review Online on August 4, Sowell opines:
“Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom.” We have heard that many times. What is also the price of freedom [...]

Each week we bring you some of the Atlas staff’s favorite online videos:
Atlas’s president, Alex Chafuen has several video recommendations this week:
Alan Kors, trying to summarize the history of the world in 1 minute 20 seconds

The Federal Reserve, with Warren Coates and Tom Woods

Stop Spending our Future: The Crisis

Allegra’s video choice comes from [...]

The Frontier Centre for Public Policy and the European Consumer Powerhouse just released The Euro- Canada Health Consumer Index 2009; an annual comparison of health care systems in Europe and Canada. The Index utilizes 32 healthcare performance indicators within five sub-disciplines: patient rights and information, waiting times for treatment, outcomes, range and reach of services [...]

As the clock struck midnight on Monday night, the Minnesota legislature adjourned…without voting on the Baby DNA warehousing bill. The DNA warehousing bill repeals genetic privacy and DNA ownership rights at birth. The Citizens’ Council on Health Care (CCHC) has been working tireless to block this proposed legislation which allows for the warehousing of DNA [...]

According to the Citizens’ Council on Health Care (CCHC), the state of Minnesota has illegally collected and claimed ownership of the DNA of 780,000 children across the state. The DNA of 42, 210 of those children has been given to genetic researchers without parental consent.
In the last legislative session, Minnesota Governor Pawlenty addressed this issue [...]

In a recent Albuquerque Journal article, Rio Grande Foundation economists, Ken Brown and Micha Gisser, discuss the healthcare plans of McCain and Obama. “Like it or not,” they write, “substantial expansion of the federal role is on the way.” The crucial factor, they say, “is how much competition and how little bureaucracy is involved in [...]

The Frontier Centre for Public Policy in collaboration with their Brussels-based partners at the Health Consumer Powerhouse just released the 2008 Canada Healthcare Consumer Index. For the first time, Canadians will be able to assess the consumer responsiveness of their province’s healthcare system against the rest of the country.
This study reveals that Canadians in different [...]