Paul Ryan has claimed that the American Health Care Act (also known as Ryancare), which is intended to replace the Affordable Care Act (also known as Obamacare), is a return to a “free market” in health care. And various commentators and politicians are suggesting that Ryan’s plan is inspired by Ayn Rand’s philosophy. For example, Rep. John Yarmuth, D-Ky., went on CNBC’s Squawk Box to say that “It’s not really a health-care bill. This is an ideological exercise to basically satisfy Paul Ryan’s Ayn Rand tendencies.”
In this video, Amesh Adalja, M.D., discusses the history of vaccination with special attention to the heroic figures who developed this technology. Particular consideration is given to the chain of reasoning leading to the first vaccine, as well as how the germ theory of disease led to a plethora of vaccines that allowed humans to experience a rapid improvement in lifespan and quality of life.
While there is heated debate today over the growth of government control of medicine, what’s often missing, particularly from those on the Right, is moral opposition to the policies on the table.
Universal health care, a system in which the government guarantees everyone a certain level of medical care, is considered by many an ideal. In countries that have it, medicine is said to be cheaper, of better quality and available to everyone. In this talk, I explain the alleged ideal of universal health care and then challenge it.
POST byRituparna Basu | View All PostsSeptember 10, 2015
If you’re near Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, next Wednesday, September 16, I’d love to see you at my talk: “Universal Health Care: Myths vs. Reality.”
The Debt Dialogues is a weekly podcast that aims to educate young people about the welfare state and how it will affect their future. In this episode, I interview Peter Ferrara, senior fellow for entitlement and budget policy at The Heartland Institute, on how to address the entitlement crisis. Topics include: why Social Security and Medicare are not sustainable; the importance of coming up with concrete proposals for reining in entitlements; Peter Ferrera’s proposals for reforming Social Security and the health care system.
On Wednesday, April 7, 7:00 PM ET, ARI and The Undercurrent invite you to this exclusive student-only live webinar with ARI analyst Rituparna Basu on the five year anniversary of Obamacare.
On today’s episode of The Yaron Brook Show, ARI’s Elan Journo guest hosted. Elan interviewed Rituparna Basu, ARI’s health care policy analyst, about Obamacare.
