What the Democrats Are Doing Right Now Won't Lower Health Care Costs—but Here's What Actually Would
Four ideas that are better than extending Obamacare subsidies and a government shutdown.
Four ideas that are better than extending Obamacare subsidies and a government shutdown.
"I think members of Congress believe that they get more popularity in votes by spending money. I actually disagree with that," the Texas Republican tells Reason.
Sometimes the state's rules require stores to cover almost the entire label of products—in places that don't even admit minors.
Authoritarian pandemic policy made the world poorer and less free.
Pfizer wins big in Trump’s new drug discount gimmick.
When the state dictates both the questions science asks and the answers it offers, it converts knowledge into propaganda and health into a matter of politics.
The decision to close two federal watchdog agencies has drawn criticism from a pair of Republican senators.
The fight over whether to extend "temporary" health insurance subsidies is really a fight over how best to hide the costs created by the Affordable Care Act.
Reason's Peter Suderman and Eric Boehm discuss the government shutdown live at 3 p.m. Eastern time today.
As ever, be cautious about what you hear from the Department of Health and Human Services.
Decades after closing state psychiatric hospitals, the U.S. still struggles to “find a middle ground—an institutional arrangement that recognizes both the dignity of the mentally ill and the public’s right to be safe.”
Flawed research methods are misleading patients and might embolden prohibitionists. Marijuana has promise in treating certain sorts of discomfort, but some conditions still require powerful narcotics.
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A quiet push to declare “no safe level” of drinking has officially fizzled.
Biosafety advocates worry the administration is backtracking on its promise to implement meaningful restrictions on the type of research that likely caused the COVID-19 pandemic.
Author Joe Dolce explains how psychedelics are moving from counterculture to mainstream, with new science, shifting laws, and surprising therapies that promise to change how we treat addiction, anxiety, and self-discovery.
The posts were "downplaying the severity of the COVID pandemic, promoting the use of ivermectin over a vaccine, and criticizing the government's response to the pandemic."
No. Federal dietary guidelines have made that connection since the 1980s, but some anti-alcohol activists are mad they didn't get to rewrite the rules this year.
Department of Veterans Affairs
What began as a simple hospital project has become yet another example of bureaucratic failure at the Department of Veterans Affairs
The expenditures are often costly privileges for special interests that mask the true size of government and fail to deliver the promised bang for the buck.
The agency's puzzling concerns about the Lykos Therapeutics drug application
Surgeon General Joseph A. Ladapo proposed ending the requirement that public school children be vaccinated, calling the mandate "slavery."
Not long ago, conservatives were rightly concerned about jawboning. Now they're apparently happy to take part in it themselves.
Plus: The National Guard standoff in Chicago, navigating debates when you’re outnumbered, and a court ruling that could upend Trump’s tariff agenda.
Many people prefer naturally produced over man-made. But isn't there something just as compelling about the stuff that thousands of people collaborated to make?
Florida officials can’t agree on whether unpasteurized milk is a health threat or benefit, leaving consumers more confused than if they were left to decide for themselves.
RFK Jr. has had a crazy week. It will not be his last, alas.
The appeals court rejected most of the arguments in favor of that policy, saying "the government must show non-intoxicated marijuana users pose a risk of future danger."
The CDC needs drastic reform, but RFK Jr.'s firing of agency head Susan Monarez does not achieve that.
The appeals court concluded that the government had failed to show that policy is consistent with "this Nation's historical tradition of firearm regulation."
"I needed some extensive and expensive dental work, and so I crossed borders."
Texas Rep. Chip Roy joins Nick Gillespie to talk about runaway spending, the uphill battle for health care reform, and where immigration fits into the liberty vs. sovereignty debate.
"If your kids went through puberty on a smartphone with social media, they came out different than human beings before that," argues psychologist Jonathan Haidt.
An easy way to avoid the merits in the latest high-stake health care litigation.
The Health and Human Services secretary once again stands athwart biomedical progress yelling, "Stop!"
Illinois wants to give mental health screenings to elementary schoolers. Will that actually help struggling kids?
The appeals court held that the government may require COVID-19 shots based purely on the benefits to recipients.
NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya defends open disagreement, criticizes groupthink, and argues that democracy depends on our ability to speak and listen across political and scientific divides.
It's time to ask what level of spending Americans truly want with the money we actually have.
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