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ObamaCare's War on Personal Responsibility

Obamacare mandates that all citizens purchase health insurance. But Supreme Court justices ripped into the administration’s “purchase or be

Apr 11, 2012
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Edward Hudgins
5 Mins
It's Not About Contraceptives

In the furor over requiring employer-sponsored health insurance to cover contraceptives, access to birth control is not the issue, and....

Mar 12, 2012
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Dr. Jane Orient
4 Mins
Behind the Scenes at a Physician-Owned Specialty Hospital

The incision Dr. Thomas Tkach makes into his patient’s knee is almost like clockwork. It is Friday morning, and within minutes Dr. Tkach...

Mar 7, 2012
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David Hogberg
4 Mins
Behind the Scenes at a General Hospital

Dr. Eric Logan and First Presbyterian Hospital are pseudonyms, used at the request of the doctor interview...

Mar 7, 2012
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David Hogberg
10 Mins
ObamaCare: Rx for Crisis

When people think of Medicare, they usually think of the government health insurance program for seniors over age 65. They may even recall..

Mar 7, 2012
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David Hogberg
15 Mins
Rip Their Lungs Out!

This one will take your breath away and, when you recover, teach you a life-saving philosophy lesson. The Obama administration’s Food and...

Sep 30, 2011
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Edward Hudgins
4 Mins
Obama's Swine Flu Altruism

The morally ugly nature of actual altruism was on display when Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius recently declared that

Jun 10, 2011
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Edward Hudgins
4 Mins
Obama Care as Faith Healing

Want an eye-opening perspective on those in Congress and the Obama administration who want the government to control America’s health care..

Jun 10, 2011
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Edward Hudgins
6 Mins
Postal Service-Style Health Care

President Obama stumbled onto the analogy which perfectly points out the dangers of the very government-run health care system that he...

Jun 10, 2011
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Edward Hudgins
4 Mins
Government Medicine's Prejudice Against Innovation

One would think that the invention of a new device that could keep patients with serious heart problems alive would be a cause for....

Jun 9, 2011
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Edward Hudgins
3 Mins
Medicare -- The Mammoth in the Living Room

October 2009 -- Is there an adult in the house? Are we all operating with one collective mind, or are there still those who possess reasonin

May 9, 2011
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Judy Kopulos
5 Mins
Freedom is a Crack

August 14, 2009 -- I am told that today's system of medical care in the United States lets too many people "fall through the cracks.".....

Apr 29, 2011
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Walter Donway
3 Mins
Postmodern Medicine

Postmodernism is the most recent incarnation and the now-reigning cult of the "anti-Enlightenment," having arisen largely from the ravings

Oct 19, 2010
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James Lee Brooks
7 Mins
Faith and Funding: What Is the Root of the Stem Cell Controversy?

September 2001 -- The current debate over federal funding of embryonic stem cell research raises two basic questions: "Is it morally and

Oct 15, 2010
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Patrick Stephens & David Kelley
6 Mins
Smoking

Ayn Rand herself smoked, and many Objectivists still do. Objectivism has no particular position on smoking as such. However, I will comment

Sep 30, 2010
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3 Mins
John Q. in Canada

The government, of course."As I live in British Columbia, Canada, it occurred to me to ask: What would have been the outcome for John Q.'s

Sep 2, 2010
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John Vincent
4 Mins
Is There a Right to Health Care?

Bill Clinton ran for president last year by attacking the 1980s as a "decade of greed" —attacking the leveraged buyouts and hostile takeover

May 12, 2010
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David Kelley Ph.D
10 Mins
Do Canadians Enjoy Waiting for Health Care?

As the U.S. Senate argues about how best to take over the American health care industry, it is worth taking a look at how government health

Apr 20, 2010
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Bradley Doucet
4 Mins
Why are so Many Americans Uninsured?

April 24, 2009 -- As Congress returns from spring recess and gets to work hammering out a health care reform bill, that dreaded statistic

Apr 20, 2010
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Bradley Doucet
5 Mins
Human Cloning is Good for All of Us

April 3, 2001 -- Last week, Congress began holding hearings on human cloning. Given the highly charged debate that human cloning is likely

Mar 31, 2010
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Patrick Stephens
3 Mins

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