Health Care Archives — News From London, Ontario, And Beyond

The FDA and the Courts Fail to Truly Discipline the Pharmaceutical Industry for Exploiting the Mentally Ill

January 23, 2023 – Antony Sammeroff …… Does the regulatory system help guarantee safe and effective drugs? Does the system protect drug consumers? Court cases tell us otherwise. Continue reading →

Why You Shouldn’t Need a Doctor’s Permission to Get Prescription Drugs

August 14, 2022 – Walter Block …… Imagine if this system were to be extrapolated to other fields. Continue reading →

Jordan Peterson Calls Out Justin Trudeau as Canada Considers Mandatory Vaccination

January 19, 2022 – Patrick Carroll …… Quebec is already moving forward with a tax on unvaccinated citizens. Continue reading →

Report: Thousands of Canadians Died Due to Delayed Care During COVID-19

December 8, 2021 – Patrick Carroll …… The key to solving the problem is getting the right diagnosis. Continue reading →

With Low Vaccination Rates, Africa’s Covid Deaths Remain Far below Europe and the US

December 5, 2021 – Ryan McMaken …… “Africa doesn’t have the vaccines and the resources to fight COVID-19 that they have in Europe and the U.S., but somehow they seem to be doing better.” Continue reading →

The Tragedy of the Government’s Ban on Human Organ Sales

November 4, 2021 – Mark Thornton …… New tech shows some light at the end of the tunnel. But for decades, government bans on a market for human organs has condemned millions of people to early deaths and immense pain. Continue reading →

How Prescription Medicines Reveal the Absurdity of the Nanny State

October 18, 2021 – Walter Block …… The divergence of Canadian and American prescription medicines reveals an arbitrariness and capriciousness in public health bureaucracy that many have probably not noticed. Continue reading →

Why Progressives Will Never Accept Market-Based Medical Care

October 2, 2021 – William L. Anderson …… Even during their most bloody and repressive years, progressives praised Mao’s China, Cuba, and the USSR, because they offered “free” healthcare. Progressives are simply uninterested in any argument in favor of private healthcare. Continue reading →

British Columbia’s Supreme Court Gets an F in Healthcare Economics

August 23, 2021 – Lee Friday …… There is no historical basis for Justice Steeves’ holier-than-thou proclamation that people of lower socioeconomic status would suffer under a system of private healthcare. Continue reading →

Canadian Healthcare: A Half-Century of Broken Promises

July 15, 2021 – Lee Friday …… For decades, Canada’s healthcare bureaucracies have feasted on billions of tax dollars while thousands of dead Canadians wait for the healthcare they were promised. They are dead because the government denied them the right to use their own money to save their own lives by purchasing private healthcare from willing providers in the Canadian marketplace. Continue reading →