Health

Life expectancy

U.S. Life Expectancy Increases by 6 Weeks - Needs to Go Up by 52 Weeks Per Year At Least

Ronald Bailey | 10.8.2014 2:41 PM

Ebola

Texas Ebola Patient Dies

Ronald Bailey | 10.8.2014 1:47 PM

Policy

Has Obamacare Helped or Hurt You and Your Family? More Americans Say It's Hurt.

Peter Suderman | 10.8.2014 12:55 PM

Policy

Health Insurers Aren't Allowed to Talk About Testing Obamacare's Website

Peter Suderman | 10.8.2014 10:50 AM

Politics

Government Watchdogs Agree: Obamacare's Insurer Bailouts Aren't Authorized. The Administration Plans to Make Payments Anyway.

Peter Suderman | 10.7.2014 3:17 PM

Policy

NYC Councilman Wants to Ban Flavored E-Cigarettes, Since Everyone Knows They're Strictly for Kids

Jacob Sullum | 10.7.2014 3:10 PM

Ebola

Private Company Keeps Ebola Under Control When Liberian Government Can't

Ronald Bailey | 10.6.2014 8:03 PM

Politics

The Obamacare Glitches Continue

In the real world, the health law is still struggling.

Peter Suderman | 10.6.2014 1:30 PM

Ebola

About 50 Under Observation in Texas over Ebola

Those who may have had contact with traveler from Liberia

Reason Staff | 10.3.2014 4:50 PM

Politics

Republicans are Shifting on Social Issues. That's a Lesson for Democrats.

Peter Suderman | 10.3.2014 2:06 PM

Contraception

Study: Providing Teens With Free Long-Acting Contraception Dramatically Lowers Births and Abortions

Ronald Bailey | 10.3.2014 11:41 AM

Policy

Facebook Is Getting Into the Health Care Business

Reason Staff | 10.3.2014 8:57 AM

Civil Liberties

Addiction: Easier to Beat Than Its Reputation

Brian Doherty | 10.1.2014 6:06 PM

Policy

Should Employers Be Forced to Hire Cannabis Consumers?

Jacob Sullum | 10.1.2014 5:48 PM

Policy

Oklahoma Court Rules that IRS Obamacare Subsidy Rule is "arbitrary, capricious, an abuse of discretion"

Peter Suderman | 10.1.2014 3:04 PM

Politics

More Health Plan Cancellations are on the Way. Obamacare is to Blame.

Peter Suderman | 10.1.2014 1:20 PM

Culture

Don't Panic About Ebola—and Don't Panic About People Panicking Either

Public hysteria isn't the problem.

Jesse Walker | 10.1.2014 12:48 PM

Environmentalism

Activist Robert Kennedy Jr. Denies He Wants to 'Jail Climate Change Deniers'—Actually Wants to 'Execute' Climate Villain Corporations and Think Tanks

Ronald Bailey | 10.1.2014 12:16 PM

Obamacare

Covered Up

Obamacare and the insured

Peter Suderman | 10.1.2014 7:00 AM

Science & Technology

First US Ebola Case Confirmed in Texas

Panic in the streets

Reason Staff | 9.30.2014 6:12 PM

Ebola

First Ebola Case in U.S. Confirmed. Don't Panic!

Ronald Bailey | 9.30.2014 5:43 PM

Politics

Supply Side Health Care Reform

Peter Suderman | 9.30.2014 10:30 AM

Policy

Stupid Bureaucracy Prevents Licensing of New Doctors in Arizona

J.D. Tuccille | 9.29.2014 2:15 PM

Switzerland

Swiss Voters Reject State-Run Health Insurance

They like their plans and would like to keep them

Reason Staff | 9.29.2014 10:50 AM

War on Drugs

Farmers Market Marijuana

For one lovely Los Angeles weekend legal medical marijuana users shopped for cannabis the way they might shop for fresh strawberries.

Scott Shackford | 9.28.2014 12:00 PM

Policy

How the Apple Watch Could Help Revolutionize Health Care

The next big political fix for our ailing health care system should be to get out of Silicon Valley's way.

Jim Epstein | 9.25.2014 4:31 PM

Policy

Health Law Produces Hospital Savings, But Startup Costs Run Far Higher

Peter Suderman | 9.25.2014 3:41 PM

Policy

Great News from California: Anti-Opioid Drug Naloxone To Be Available At Pharmacies Without Prescription

Brian Doherty | 9.23.2014 9:23 PM

Policy

How Price Controls Contribute to High Medicare Bills

Peter Suderman | 9.22.2014 11:44 AM

Raid

DEA Shoot Grandmother Reaching For Baby During Raid, According to Son

Ed Krayewski | 9.19.2014 4:38 PM

Marijuana

Barney Frank Explains How America's Libertarian Nature Is Helping Legalize Gay Marriage, Marijuana

Scott Shackford | 9.19.2014 2:35 PM

Policy

It Looks Like Pot Will Soon Be Legal in the Nation's Capital, Maybe in Oregon Too (Alaska Is Iffier)

Jacob Sullum | 9.19.2014 1:07 PM

Policy

What's Really Going On With Obamacare Insurance Premiums?

Peter Suderman | 9.19.2014 12:05 PM

Saccharin

Nature Artificial Sweetener Study Bogus, Says American Council on Science and Health

Ronald Bailey | 9.18.2014 5:39 PM

Veterans

Docs Link VA Wait Times to Patients' Deaths

Agency continues to attempt to deflect

Reason Staff | 9.18.2014 4:20 PM

Policy

Assistant Inspector General Concedes That VA Shenanigans 'Contributed' to Patient Deaths

J.D. Tuccille | 9.18.2014 4:01 PM

Politics

Obama Administration Says 7.3 Million Paid Enrollments in Obamacare Exchanges as of August

Peter Suderman | 9.18.2014 3:41 PM

Policy

Minnesota's Biggest Obamacare Insurer Leaves Exchange

Peter Suderman | 9.18.2014 1:55 PM

Sugar

Are Artificial Sweeteners Responsible for the Diabetes and Obesity Epidemics?

Ronald Bailey | 9.18.2014 11:31 AM

Vaccines

Vaccination Rates Higher In War-Torn South Sudan Than in Many Affluent Los Angeles Schools

Ronald Bailey | 9.17.2014 1:23 PM

Policy

Alarmed at Increase in Smoking, New York Regulators Resist a Much Safer Alternative

Jacob Sullum | 9.16.2014 3:17 PM

Biotechnology

One Million Dollar Prize to Build New Livers: The Race Is Officially On

Ronald Bailey | 9.16.2014 1:46 PM

Policy

Why Illinois Medical Marijuana Patients Still Have No Marijuana

Gov. Pat Quinn signed off on medical marijuana over a year ago, but you still can't buy it anywhere in the state.

Zenon Evans | 9.9.2014 4:31 PM

Policy

Emergency Room Usage is Way Up in Medicaid Expansion States

Peter Suderman | 9.9.2014 12:08 PM

Policy

Missouri Republicans Push 72-Hour Abortion Waiting Period

Elizabeth Nolan Brown | 9.9.2014 11:00 AM

Crony Capitalism

'The Kronies' Expand Their Winning Ways into Health Care 'Reform'

Scott Shackford | 9.8.2014 3:20 PM

Politics

Govt Spends Record 46% of Health Care Dollars: Why That's Not Good

Nick Gillespie | 9.8.2014 9:01 AM

Policy

Leaping From Mouse to Man, Researchers Warn That E-Cigarettes Could Make You Snort Cocaine

Jacob Sullum | 9.5.2014 5:11 PM