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  • How Government Regulations Made Healthcare So Expensive

    How Government Regulations Made Healthcare So Expensive0

    “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it,” declared philosopher George Santayana. The U.S. ”health care cost crisis” didn’t start until 1965. The government increased demand with the passage of Medicare and Medicaid while restricting the supply of doctors and hospitals. Health care prices responded at twice the rate of inflation (Figure

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  • How Government Regulation Caused the Financial Crisis

    How Government Regulation Caused the Financial Crisis0

    Note: Last week I asked why conservative Christian outlets are increasingly promoting socialist ideas and policies. My friend Jake Meador weighed in to help provide some perspective on this trend. Jake himself is the editor of an online Christian magazine—Mere Orthodoxy—that would be described as traditionalist conservative. While he is not a socialist, he admits he

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  • How Government Makes Us Fatter

    How Government Makes Us Fatter0

    The government, with its accomplices in the food lobby, has helped to make and keep us fat. Through subsidies and misguided food suggestions, Congress, the FDA, and the USDA have made it more difficult for Americans to make smarter dietary decisions. It’s not as if we don’t care. Americans spend $33 billion annually on weight-loss

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  • How Government ‘Cures’ Drive Out Real Cures

    How Government ‘Cures’ Drive Out Real Cures0

    Scurvy, we all know, is a disease caused by a vitamin C deficiency. It took almost 200 years from the time a “lemon juice” cure for scurvy was discovered until it was promoted by the British government. Some think the mental biases that caused the needless deaths of millions have been eliminated in more “enlightened”

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  • How Good is Your Philosophy Vocabulary?

    How Good is Your Philosophy Vocabulary?0

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  • How Good Is Your Mathematical Reasoning?

    How Good Is Your Mathematical Reasoning?0

    • July 28, 2016

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