Commentary Our governments intend to transfer decisions over our health, families, and societal freedoms to the Director General of the World Health Organization (WHO), whenever he or she declares it necessary. The success of this transfer of power depends on public ignorance of its implications, and of the nature of the WHO itself and its…
The WHO Is a Real and Present Danger
July 12, 2023
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Report Reveals NHS Delivers Poorer Health Outcome Than Many Comparable Countries
The NHS is lagging behind many comparable countries in terms of health outcomes, a study has found. The research (pdf), published on Monday by The King’s Fund, found that while the taxpayer-funded healthcare system does well in shielding the ill from the financial impact, it performs worse in a number of important outcomes such as…
NHS Delivers Poorer Health Outcome Than Many Comparable Countries: UK Report
The UK’s National Health Service (NHS) is lagging behind many comparable countries in terms of health outcomes, a study has found. While the taxpayer-funded health care system does well in shielding the ill from the financial impact, it performs worse in a number of important outcomes such as life expectancy and avoidable deaths, according to…
US Fatalities for 2022
We now have U.S. fatality data for 2022, which should be mostly complete. Fatalities for the year still ran well above pre-pandemic levels but were down from 2020 and 2021. Prior to the pandemic, there were about 2.8 million fatalities each year in the United States. For many years, fatalities have grown consistently at a…
America’s Broken Health Care: Diagnosis and Prescription
March 22, 2023
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The following is adapted from a talk delivered at Hillsdale College on March 5, 2023, during a Center for Constructive Alternatives conference on “Big Pharma.” I developed a serious cardiac arrhythmia, ventricular tachycardia, seven years ago. It worsened over the past summer and early fall, and over the past six weeks I’ve had several ambulance rides…
The Sovietization of Medical Care
Commentary My good friend professor Yuri Maltsev died this week and I’ve spent these mourning days recalling our conversations. He was a leading economist in the old Soviet Union, as the top advisor to Mikhail Gorbachev’s chief economist. He defected in 1989 before the Soviet Union fell apart. We became fast friends just after he…
Yikes! Life Is Getting Shorter in America
Commentary It’s one thing when government raises your taxes, suffocates your business with regulations, or censors your tweets. It’s far worse when government is to blame for actually shortening your life. U.S. life expectancy dropped to 76.4 years, the lowest in 25 years, according to new federal data. Americans should be gasping. What could be…
Capitol Report: Biden Urges Americans to Travel Early Ahead of Winter Storm; Concerns of Deeper Recession Linger
December 22, 2022
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President Joe Biden is delivering a Christmas address. What is his message, and his warning about dangerous winter storms bearing down across the country? Congress has approved $1.7 trillion to fund the government for next year. The Senate barely garnered enough votes to push it through—with most Republicans opposed. Rep. Byron Donalds (R-Fla.) joins us…
US Life Expectancy Reaches 25-Year Low: CDC
Life expectancy for Americans born in 2021 was just 76.4 years, the lowest in a quarter-century, according to new data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The life expectancy was down 0.6 years from 2020, and 2.4 years from 2019. It has not been so low since 1996, when it was…
US Life Expectancy Fell With COVID Vax Rollout, NY Times Blames a Lack of Vaccination and White People
Commentary The portion of the U.S. population fully vaccinated against COVID-19 rose from 0 percent at the outset of 2021 to 63 percent by the end of the year. Yet, the CDC recently estimated that average U.S. life expectancy fell by 0.9 years in 2021. This is in addition to a 1.8 year decline in 2020—and contrary to predictions that COVID vaccines could reverse this…
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