Mark Todd Engler

is a freelance writer and editor living in Middle Tennessee. Besides health care, he is interested in property rights and land-use planning, transportation, privatization, free-market environmentalism and investment-driven natural resource stewardship, the war on drugs, religious freedom, alternative education, and the use of initiative&referendum to protect and advance individual liberty.

Thursday, November 20, 2008

Still Crazy About Freedom and Responsibility After All These Years 

By Mark Todd Engler

Filed As:  General, Health Care

Lew Rockwell podcasts with 88-year-old Dr. Thomas Szasz, the legendary libertarian mental health theorist and "leading opponent of the psychiatry ... more »»

Thursday, November 20, 2008

Dr. Feelbad 

By Mark Todd Engler

Filed As:  General, Health Care, Information Technology

A survey released this week by The Physicians' Foundation reveals an epidemic of dissatisfaction with the current U.S. health system ... more »»

Friday, August 29, 2008

Everything Central Planners Know is Wrong 

By Mark Todd Engler

Filed As:  Health Care

John Stossel's critical assessment of certificate-of-need programs got picked up in two West Virginia newspapers today, the Charleston Daily Mail and the more »»

Tuesday, August 26, 2008

Drunk With Power: Been There, Still Doing That 

By Mark Todd Engler

Filed As:  General

Nashville's metro daily ran a thought-provoking guest piece recently ("Prohibition wasn't the cure-all that Tennessee wanted") commemorating the 75th anniversary this month of the ... more »»

Friday, August 22, 2008

3 Swings, 3 Misses 

By Mark Todd Engler

Filed As:  Health Care

The latest revenue-generating scheme for financing the state government's efforts to provide medical insurance to all Oregonians is exactly what it isn't supposed to be, writes Cascade Policy Institute's Steve Buckstein more »»

Thursday, August 21, 2008

Policy Reform, American Style 

By Mark Todd Engler

Filed As:  General, Health Care

Writing for NRO, Manhattan Institute Center for Medical Progress director Paul Howard delivers a four-point plan to ... more »»

Wednesday, August 20, 2008

Canadian Health Care Situation 'Alarming,' says new CMA Chief  

By Mark Todd Engler

Filed As:  General, Health Care

The incoming president of Canada's largest association of physicians, Robert Ouellet, today implored medical professionals and policymakers in his country to "pull their heads out of the sand" and ... more »»

Tuesday, August 19, 2008

Ministry of Silly Bureaucrats 

By Mark Todd Engler

Filed As:  Health Care

I recall listening some time ago as a lefty airwave commander n' controller sputtered incredulously at a guest's suggestion that ever-increasing government management of health care will inexorably embolden central planners to ever-increasingly ... more »»

Monday, August 18, 2008

Anatomy of a Rebellion 

By Mark Todd Engler

Filed As:  General, Health Care

A piece in the Minneapolis Star-Tribune today puts a healthy spin on concierge medicine and cash clinics.

The article examines some of the rewarding and ... more »»

Friday, August 15, 2008

Krugman vs. Reality 

By Mark Todd Engler

Filed As:  General, Health Care

Center for Medicine in the Public Interest president Peter Pitts challenged Walter Dura...er, Paul Krugman's advocacy for ... more »»

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