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Free Market Healthcare in the Former Eastern Bloc

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“To be honest, most Eastern European countries still have a very centrally planned health system, but if you look at Western Europe, most countries—except the Netherlands and Switzerland—have heavily centrally planned health systems themselves. Some more, some less.  There are a couple of very interesting examples in Eastern Europe, of what privatisation and deregulation of healthcare has achieved. I would like to highlight those, because they are also interesting for people from Western countries to get really good ammunition for arguments in why we need more markets and healthcare. Why do people benefit from more markets in healthcare?”

http://isil.org/giant-or-dwarf-free-market-healthcare-in-the-former-east-block/

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Coca-Capitulation

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“‘In an entirely voluntary move,’ Coca-Cola announced that it would ‘cease all worldwide marketing efforts to children under 12, put calorie counts on all packaging and labeling and ensure that low-calorie and no-calorie … beverages are available in every nation on earth where Coca-Cola is sold.’  The political assault on Coca-Cola is usually described in terms of health paladins using power to restrain an unscrupulous corporation. Whatever the truth of that narrative, food politics is also a brutal attack upon consumers who end up forcibly being ‘protected’ from their own choices.”

http://www.fee.org/the_freeman/detail/coca-capitulation

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The drug war works its way into your pants

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“I asked a couple medical ethics specialists about all of this. They told me that the doctors who performed the procedures were also likely in violation of their professional ethical obligations. But here too, it was extremely unlikely anyone would be sanctioned.  So to sum up: When it comes to cavity searches for drugs, what’s legal is bad enough. But it turns out that police and medical professionals might also do some illegal things to you that are even more awful. And despite the illegality of those procures, and that they’re medically unethical, there’s a good chance that they’ll all get away with it.”

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/opinions/wp/2014/01/30/the-drug-war-works-its-way-into-your-pants/

I asked a couple medical ethics specialists about all of this. They told me that the doctors who performed the procedures were also likely in violation of their professional ethical obligations. But here too, it was extremely unlikely anyone would be sanctioned.

So to sum up: When it comes to cavity searches for drugs, what’s legal is bad enough. But it turns out that police and medical professionals might also do some illegal things to you that are even more awful. And despite the illegality of those procures, and that they’re medically unethical, there’s a good chance that they’ll all get away with it.

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Medical marijuana kids bring Oklahoma families to Colorado

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“Within 15 minutes of receiving her first dose, Zoey said a new word, Johnson said. Age 6 at the time, Zoey had the developmental level of a 2-year-old.  Johnson’s father, Marty Piel, is expected to appear at a hearing along with other proponents before Oklahoma state lawmakers on Feb. 12. He said they hope for some kind of narrow exception in the state’s drug laws for children like Zoey.  Mark Woodward, a spokesman for the Oklahoma Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs, said the agency is currently opposed to legalizing medications such as Charlotte’s Web. He said the agency believes for safety’s sake, the drug should go through the same federal approval process as others.”

http://www.tulsaworld.com/news/health/medical-marijuana-brings-oklahoma-families-to-colorado-to-treat-kids/article_e5eeb610-85de-52b9-a4f2-37a9e42b9737.html

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Cancer Patient Loses Doctor, Treatment Delayed Due To ObamaCare

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Wendy McElroy: Don’t Like My Article? I Will Sue!

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“Some effects of America’s hyper-litigiousness are obvious. For example, when a corporation announces a change in its customer policies as a response to a substantial payout. Or when your neighbor declares bankruptcy because he cannot afford the damages from someone slipping on his icy driveway.  Less visible effects can be ‘chilling’ as well. A chilling effect occurs when people avoid the legitimate exercise of their rights because they fear repercussions. A common political example is a journalist who avoids criticizing the government because he fears reprisals, such as being audited by the IRS. An insidious aspect of chilling is that its consequences are often invisible.”

http://dollarvigilante.com/blog/2014/1/16/dont-like-my-article-i-will-sue.html

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California Chefs, Bartenders Now Forced To Wear Gloves

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“Chefs and bartenders in California are aghast over a new law that prevents them from touching the food they will serve to customers. The new law, which took effect on January 1, is part of the California Retail Food Code.  State food handling regulations previously required foodservice employees to ‘minimize bare hand and arm contact with non-prepackaged food that is in a ready-to-eat-form[.]’  The new law ‘instead requires food employees to minimize bard (sic) hand and arm contact with exposed food that is not in a ready-to-eat form.’ The ‘ready-to-eat’ terminology means ‘food that is edible without additional preparation to achieve food safety.'”

http://reason.com/archives/2014/01/18/california-chefs-bartenders-now-forced-t/print

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Tobacco, booze, now sugar: the control freaks happily ban everything

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“Can you imagine campaigns as ludicrous as this being launched, say, in the 1970s or 1980s? No you can’t because not even the most extreme killjoy zealot would have dared. With bans, as with so many of the fascistic gestures you associate with the authoritarian left, it’s a Pastor Niemoller thing.  Left-liberals often deny that slippery slope exists. ‘Well of course we’re not interested in banning everything. Just the really dangerous stuff. Tobacco.’ Then, of course, when they’ve pretty much regulated tobacco out of existence their locust eyes turn to new territory. Mm: alcohol. Mm: sugar. Mm. salt… etc.”

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/jamesdelingpole/100255127/first-tobacco-then-booze-then-sugar-the-control-freaks-who-would-happily-ban-everything/

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You can have my e-cig when you pry it from my cold, dead fingers

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“Apparently, for our current political culture, the need to spread as much misery as possible is a more important goal for government than getting people to quit tobacco.  Attorney generals from 40 states are begging the FDA to intervene and stop the e-cig industry. Some states have already passed legislation to regulate them like regular cigarettes.  There is something about this technology that has the control freaks in a state of frenzy. Health nazis are in a panic, trying to figure out how to shut down the industry, tax it exorbitantly, or otherwise drive it out of public life forever.  No one has demonstrated that e-cigs are harmful in any way. Why is government so down on them?”

http://dailycaller.com/2014/01/20/you-can-have-my-e-cig-when-you-pry-it-from-my-cold-dead-fingers/

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Family of man executed in Ohio using untested procedure plans suit

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“The family of a prisoner who was executed in Ohio on Thursday using an untested combination of medical drugs that appeared to cause him prolonged distress are planning to sue the state for inflicting cruel and unusual punishment, in violation of the US constitution.  Dennis McGuire, 53, was put to death using an untested two-drug protocol involving the sedative midazolam and painkiller hydromorphone. Before the execution, which took an abnormally long 25 minutes, Ohio courts were warned by an anaesthesiologist who served as an expert witness for McGuire that the procedure and the doses of drugs to be used would inflict untold suffering upon the inmate.”

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jan/17/dennis-mcguire-ohio-execution-untested-method-lawsuit

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