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Richard E. Ralston's FDA Testimony

AFCM's executive director testified at a public Food and Drug Administration hearing about regulating a certain drug. . . . [ full article ]

 

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Learn the facts and join the fight to free health care from a government takeover.

Fallacy #1: "The quality of health care in America is ranked lower than 36 other countries."
Fallacy #2: "Medicare and Medicaid are far more efficient and less wasteful than private insurance, spending only three percent on administrative overhead."
Fallacy #3: "Government or universities develop most new medications and then just hand them over to pharmaceutical companies to manufacture and make all the profits."
Fallacy #4: "Advertising of drugs is bad because it increases the price of medications."
Fallacy #5: "Private corporations are wasteful and bloated bureaucracies. Government-provided health care is lean and efficient."

Read the right responses to those claims and others:
Fifty Fallacies About Health Care





Joint Defense of Freedom in American Medicine
National Press Club
Washington, D.C.
September 19, 2009
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American Health Care:  Essential Principles and Common Fallacies
 
This essay provides a brief guide to the essential political, economic and moral principles on which all health policy must be based. There is a special emphasis on the role of unique American values in maintaining these principles.
 
Also included are many common fallacies about American health care that are often used to confuse and obstruct a proper approach to medical care. Facts and reasoned arguments are provided as tools to help prevent these fallacies from damaging the system of medical care required in a free society. [ continue ]

Health Care in California
 
AFCM is dedicated to an unequivocal moral defense of capitalism and individual rights in America's great state of California. Read AFCM's commentary on issues directly concerning California—and ultimately the entire country. [ continue ]

Leonard PeikoffHealth Care Is Not a Right
 
Watch the entire lecture delivered by Leonard Peikoff, Ph.D., at a Town Hall meeting in Costa Mesa, California. [ watch video ]
 
Alternate formats:
Read the lecture on this site, or download a PDF suitable for printing (requires Adobe® Reader).

 


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Three Big Lies Behind Government-Run Health Care

How do you get away with legislation for $1 trillion in spending through increased taxes, cuts in Medicare, penalties on employers for not bowing to government mandates, and penalties — or even jail time — on every American for not carrying health insurance? Politicians count on three Big Lies. . . . [ full article ]

Twelve Ways to Increase the Cost of Health Insurance

Health care legislation now being debated in the Senate will do nothing to make health care more affordable but quite a lot to make it more expensive. It serves the purpose of a massive and permanent expansion of the size and power of government and the political class as an end in itself. . . . [ full article ]

The Destruction of an Industry

What passes for "reform" in Congress would eliminate health insurance firms. Why? Because, we are told, it is immoral for anyone to make a profit providing health insurance. Virtue, in this view, is restricted to those who impose government insurance on everyone through the force of law. . . . [ full article ]


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