Robert Fogel explains why controlling health care costs is counterproductive:

Expenditures on healthcare are driven by demand, ... more »»

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The American Academy of Pediatrics recommends that babies be breastfed for a year because of the medical benefits it confers. More mothers might choose to breastfeed if they had that information. However, people should make decisions with their ... more »»

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This article is specifically about Florida, but the issues it raises come up in health care debates everywhere:

Some doctors say too many C-sections are ... more »»

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Information is a scarce resource: There’s a cost to gathering it, analyzing it, and promulgating it. Human attention is also scarce. Not even Stephen ... more »»

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The International Day of the Midwife happened this week, so I thought I’d check up on the midwives. There isn’t much midwifery news in Missouri these days, now that the law here is so ... more »»

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No insurance plan is going to cover every illness. It would be so expensive that no one could afford it. And no one would want it, anyway. People buy insurance to cover a limited number of potential events, not every possible occurrence. When you ... more »»

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I just read this article about a proposal for state agencies to encourage patients in Missouri to sign end-of-life directives. These are ... more »»

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An article in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch outlines a health care proposal that passed the Missouri Senate last ... more »»

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The top headline on the Chronicle’s website is that a husband had to deliver a baby at home ... more »»

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Some of the arguments I’m hearing for limits on the number of embryos that can be implanted in a woman are similar to the arguments for motorcycle ... more »»

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