Markets and Medical Care

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Further reading:

The False Promise of Free Medical Care by Timothy Terrell (Chapter 2 in The Cost of Free Stuff: Your Freedom!)

Single-Payer Healthcare Is the Worst Kind of Universal Healthcare by Ryan McMaken

Does Britain Have the World’s Best Health System? Only If You Ignore Outcomes by George Pickering

Sixty Years On – Who Cares for the NHS? by Helen Evans

Health Check: The NHS and Market Reforms by Kristian Niemietz


How the Government Ruined US Healthcare — and What Can Be Done by Alice Salles

How Government Regulations Made Healthcare So Expensive by Mike Holly

Government Medical “Insurance” by Murray N. Rothbard (Chapter 20 in Making Economic Sense)

The Health Plan's Devilish Principles by Murray N. Rothbard (Chapter 35 in Making Economic Sense)

A Four-Step Healthcare Solution by Hans-Hermann Hoppe


Advancing Pharmaceutical and Medical Technology Does Not Depend on Patents by Nathan Nicolaisen

The Early Development of Medical Licensing Laws in the United States 1875-1900 by Ronald Hamowy

Economic Freedom, Pandemics, and Robust Political Economy by Rosolino A. Candela & Vincent Geloso

Privately Preventing Malaria in the United States, 1900-1925 by Byron Carson

Cuban Infant Mortality and Longevity: Health Care or Repression? by Gilbert Berdine, Vincent Geloso & Benjamin Powell


The Primal Prescription: Surviving The “Sick Care” Sinkhole by Doug McGuff & Robert P. Murphy

Hazardous to Our Health? FDA Regulation of Health Care Products edited by Robert Higgs

Government and Public Health in America by Ronald Hamowy

Compulsory Medical Care and the Welfare State by Melchior Palyi

From Mutual Aid to the Welfare State: Fraternal Societies and Social Services, 1890–1967 by David T. Beito

Lodge Doctors and the Poor by David T. Beito

Working-Class Patients and the Medical Establishment: Self-Help in Britain from the Mid-Nineteenth Century to 1948 by David G. Green