Operation Health Freedom - Daniel Hannan (No Edits)

it's copied from an essay by dilorenzo... i don't think he's making it up

hate to break it to you, but it looks like he is making it up

look go to google books and add this to the url for the essay
books?id=VWNNYqZMqMkC&printsec =frontcover&source=gbs_navlink s_s#v=onepage&q=hospitals&f=fa lse

and see for yourself

Prove me wrong if you can, go on... :)

didn't see it there, i saw some of the other info that dilorezno used there, maybe the percentages came from somewhere else. if i cared enough, i would email him.

re: fda, you are using faulty 'cetaris paribus' analysis, saying the fda has helped keeping drugs off the market - because you are imagining a scenario where bad drugs are on the market, but people take them cause they outsource their diligence to fda.... but if fda is removed, info on drugs will be provided by competing companies.

No, he clearly says 'In a 1992 study published by the Hoover Institution, entitled "Input and Output in Health Care," Friedman noted that 56 percent of all hospitals in America were privately owned and for-profit in 1910.... "

He was either lieing or such a poor scholar that he didn't check his main source.

Both aren't a good look. You look up to him, why?

re: fda. explain how I'm using a 'with all other things being equal' analysis.

I'm just saying that even with the FDA, and competiting companies, there have been toxic harmful drugs sucessfully sold. Without the FDA you think people would be protected by info on drugs provided by competing companies? Really? Even though they could only get this info after the drug has gone to market? Even though the competing info claims would be a gift to lawyers? It wouldn't matter how diligent people were

with no fda, people's actions in regard to determining which drugs they want to take changes. they don't just assume that drugs on the market are good - which is a dangerous proclivity even when there is an fda.

finally, fda is a monopoly, and as such, will suck at its job and take way too much money. And block natural medicines cause its beholden to the pharma companies.

peace out.

But you expect any drug released in such a FDAless market wouldn't be aggressivly marketed? Getting rivals to fact check would take years (and probably millions of dollars in legal fees) after said drug had been released to the general public.

So, the US Army sucks then? The fireservice? The police force? Do they all suck? They are all monopolies in the same way that the FDA is.

The influence of large companies upon the governing of the US is a different mater

pease out to you sir as well...

sorry 'note percentages of hospital ownership' rather than "hospital essays".