Glen Tenney's Online Resources
Topic: Health Care 


 

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 U.S.  (13 pages, 2006)

Why is Medical Care So Expensive?

By Hans F. Sennholz

2 pages, 2006

Economics and American Health Care

By Kirby R. Cundiff

4 pages, 2006

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)

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)

How Medical Boards Nationalized Health Care

By Henry Jones

5 pages, 2005

Doctor-Assisted Price Fixing?

By Skip Oliva

2 pages, 2004

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)

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)

Socialized Medicine in America

By Timothy Terrell

2 pages, 2003

The Changing U. S. Health Care System: The Effect of Competition on Structure and Performance

By Robert Helms

20 pages, 2001

Sayonara MSAs

By Dale Steinreich

4 pages, 2000

Socialized Medicine, Take Two

Jeffrey Herbener

3 pages, 1996

A Four-Step Health-Care Solution

By Hans Hoppe

2 pages, 1993

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