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Glen Tenney's Online Resources |
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Direct-to-Consumer
Advertising and the Demise of the Ideal Model of Health Care By Ronald F. White |
The
link here is to a summary of the article only. The full article will be
available in a few months. The
article argues that the prevailing model of biomedical ethics is seemingly
rooted in ideal altruism, but that this misconstrues the real situation with
health care, which is rooted in a “reciprocal altruism.” White
then goes on to show that direct-to-consumer pharmaceutical advertising plays
an important part in the decentralized reforms that are coming to the
health-care field in the |
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Why
is Medical Care So Expensive? By Hans F. Sennholz |
2
pages, 2006 |
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Economics and
American Health Care By Kirby R. Cundiff |
4
pages, 2006 |
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Uncertainty
and Its Exigencies: The Critical Role of Insurance in the Free Market By Hans Hoppe |
The
focus of this article is the principles involved in insurance, but it is
included here because of its strong applicability to today’s health
insurance market. (9 pages, 2006) |
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Healthy
Competition: What’s Holding Back Health Care and How to Free It By Robert Ohsfeldt |
This
is a short review of the book by Michael Cannon and Michael Tanner. (2 pages,
2006) |
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How Medical Boards
Nationalized Health Care By Henry Jones |
5
pages, 2005 |
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By Skip Oliva |
2
pages, 2004 |
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The Business
Model of Medicine: Modern Health Care’s Awkward Flirtation with the Marketplace By James Whalen |
In
this article, the author suggests that the health care system should be
overhauled so that decisions are made to improve health, not the bottom lines
of corporate enterprises. (13 pages, 2003) |
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If the
“Business Model” of Medicine is Sick, What’s the Diagnosis
and What’s the Cure? By Robert Ohsfeldt |
This
article is a response to James Whalen’s suggestion that health care
ought to be treated as a social service rather than a business. (13 pages,
2003) |
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Socialized
Medicine in America By Timothy Terrell |
2
pages, 2003 |
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The
Changing U. S. Health Care System: The Effect of Competition on Structure and
Performance By Robert Helms |
20
pages, 2001 |
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By Dale Steinreich |
4 pages, 2000 |
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Jeffrey Herbener |
3 pages, 1996 |
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A
Four-Step Health-Care Solution By Hans Hoppe |
2 pages, 1993 |