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Healthy, Wealthy, and Wise
Five Steps to a Better Health Care System
By R. Glenn Hubbard, John F. Cogan, Daniel P. Kessler
Posted: Tuesday, September 13, 2005

America's health-care system faces serious challenges, and only drastic reforms will preserve its strengths while correcting its weaknesses. [Read More]

One Nation under Therapy
How the Helping Culture Is Eroding Self-Reliance
By Sally Satel, M.D., Christina Hoff Sommers
Posted: Wednesday, April 13, 2005

Drawing on established science and common sense, the authors reveal how "therapism" and the burgeoning trauma industry have come to pervade our lives. [Read More]

Arbitrary and Capricious
The Precautionary Principle in the European Union Courts
By Gary E. Marchant, Kenneth L. Mossman
Posted: Friday, August 6, 2004

This study examines how the European Union has used the precautionary principle in legal decisions. [Read More]

Private Discounts, Public Subsidies
How the Medicare Prescription Drug Discount Card Really Works
By Joseph Antos, Ximena Pinell
Posted: Wednesday, June 16, 2004

While critics have pronounced the Medicare prescription drug discount card program a failure, Antos and Pinell find that the evidence proves otherwise. [Read More]

Health Care Matters
Pharmaceuticals, Obesity, and the Quality of Life
By H. E. Frech III, Richard D. Miller Jr.
Posted: Wednesday, March 10, 2004

This book shows that it is time to rethink conventional wisdom regarding consumption of pharmaceuticals. [Read More]

Who Should Pay for Medicare?
By Daniel Shaviro
Posted: Friday, March 5, 2004

This book offers an accessible overview of how Medicare operates as a fiscal system. [Read More]

Health and the Income Inequality Hypothesis
A Doctrine in Search of Data
By Sally Satel, M.D., Nicholas Eberstadt
Posted: Thursday, January 8, 2004

The study analyzes and challenges the income inequality hypothesis, which purports to show that inequality in income--not poverty per se--is bad for people's health. [Read More]

Beyond Therapy
Biotechnology and the Pursuit of Happiness
Posted: Wednesday, November 12, 2003

A groundbreaking new exploration of the promises and perils of biotechnology--and the future of American society. [Read More]

Saving Lives and Saving Money
By Newt Gingrich, Dana Pavey, Anne Woodbury
Posted: Tuesday, April 1, 2003

This book is a transforming approach to the challenge of creating a better system of health and health care for the twenty-first century. [Read More]

Drug Treatment
The Case for Coercion
By Sally Satel, M.D.
Posted: Wednesday, January 1, 2003

This study demonstrates the effectiveness of mandated treatment for many drug abusers. [Read More]

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