Mark Todd Engler

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

Wednesday, July 8, 2009

More Evidence Bredesen Must Be Doing Something Right? 

The Tennessee guv's govt-care reforms and cost-savings measures are the subject of hysterical press speculation

By Mark Todd Engler

Filed As:  General, Health Care

The (Nashville) Tennessean ran an article yesterday, "Patients fear life without TennCare," that attempted to paint Democratic Gov. Phil Bredesen's administration ... more »»

Thursday, July 2, 2009

Stossel Shrugged 

CER may limit unapproved choices? "So what," yawns libertarian muckraker. Under Obamacare, innovation is history anyway

By Mark Todd Engler

Filed As:  General, Health Care

The Reason Foundation's Shikha Dalmia had an article yesterday at Forbes that listed some of the lies President Obama has been laying on the masses, suggesting perhaps our Dear ... more »»

Tuesday, June 30, 2009

Yes We Cannabis? 

Take it from Dr. Friedman: "Drug prohibition has absolutely no positive effects whatsoever."

By Mark Todd Engler

Filed As:  Economic principles, Health Care

You know attitudes about the war on drugs are changing when a roundtable of self-important mainstream conventional wisdom guardians generally agrees that states should legalize weed.

Given that partisan pundits of both dreary statist ... more »»

Friday, June 19, 2009

The Consensus on Health Care Spending: We’re in Conflict 

The good news is, that's normal

By Mark Todd Engler

Filed As:  General, Health Care

According to the Pew Research Center, 78 percent of Americans don't think "we" in this country spend the appropriate amount on health care. That oughta indicate something pretty important, right?

It does indeed. Respondents to ... more »»

Monday, June 15, 2009

Bad Medicine 

By Mark Todd Engler

Filed As:  General, Health Care

President Obama declared today he doesn't want to socialize American health care, drive private insurance plans out of business or force people onto a government-run "public option," and that anyone ... more »»

Wednesday, June 10, 2009

Competition's the Cure 

By Mark Todd Engler

Filed As:  Economic principles, General, Health Care

In his latest Townhall.com column, "Competition Would Save Medicine, Too," John Stossel takes issues with Dr. Atul Gawande's "otherwise ... more »»

Thursday, June 4, 2009

Protectionism a Prescription for Promoting Public Health? 

Big Pharma's embrace of government special-favoritism puts frightening life to that famous pessimist's phrase, "In the long run, we're all dead."

By Mark Todd Engler

Filed As:  General, Health Care

Peter Pitts on Wednesday did as good a job as I've ever seen putting to rest the notion that opposition to drug "reimportation" is based on anything other than a domestic industry desire to prohibit foreign companies from ... more »»

Thursday, May 28, 2009

Invasive Species 

Filed As:  General, Health Care

Crikey! Another creative entry in the Galen Institute's "First, Do No Harm" video ... more »»

Friday, May 15, 2009

Fat in the Firing Line 

Will Frieden seek to ban all things fried (and smoked)?

By Mark Todd Engler

Filed As:  General, Health Care

In yet another sign the U.S. government may be mobilizing for an all-out regulatory assault on comfort food, the administration today tapped NYC fat czar Thomas Frieden more »»

Thursday, May 14, 2009

But What (and Who) Gets Cut? 

By Mark Todd Engler

Filed As:  General, Health Care

The Wall Street Journal today describes the tender shoots of goodwill budding from Monday's hopeful commingling of health care industry interests and Obama administration officials.

Much to the delight of the ... more »»

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