Health

Politics

Mandatory Savings?

Requiring people to buy medical insurance will fuel health care inflation.

Jacob Sullum | 10.28.2009 7:00 AM

Politics

The Tragedy of Health Insurance

How the insurance industry has haplessly abetted the rise of a government-run health care system

Ronald Bailey | 10.27.2009 6:00 PM

Policy

'If You Really Want to Go After the Mexican Cartels…You'd Legalize Marijuana'

Jacob Sullum | 10.26.2009 4:48 PM

Policy

Swine Flu: The Mystery Epidemic

Brian Doherty | 10.26.2009 3:34 PM

Politics

Medical Marijuana Muddle

The Obama administration's new policy may not make much difference in practice.

Reason Staff | 10.23.2009 12:00 PM

Politics

Barry McCaffrey Says He Is '100 Percent' for Medical Marijuana

Jacob Sullum | 10.23.2009 11:55 AM

Politics

The Medical Pot Situation in L.A.: Chaotic

Brian Doherty | 10.22.2009 2:42 PM

Politics

DEA Agrees With Me About Medical Marijuana

Jacob Sullum | 10.22.2009 1:00 PM

Policy

A Prescription Should Be Required for Sudafed Because It Doesn't Cure the Common Cold

Jacob Sullum | 10.21.2009 1:01 PM

Policy

Myocardial Infractions

A government-commissioned report promotes smoking bans by tweaking the evidence.

Jacob Sullum | 10.21.2009 7:00 AM

Politics

Will Federal Medical Marijuana Raids Continue?

Jacob Sullum | 10.19.2009 12:51 PM

Policy

Beware the Jack-Booted Feet Bermuda-Shorts Clad Thighs of Armored Drug Cops

Peter Suderman | 10.19.2009 10:44 AM

Policy

CDC-Commissioned Report Says More Evidence Is Needed to Decide Whether Smoking Bans Are Good

Jacob Sullum | 10.16.2009 2:33 PM

Policy

The Real Swine Flu Hazard

Nick Gillespie | 10.15.2009 9:09 AM

Policy

Keats Has TB, Hearts Hamburgers

Katherine Mangu-Ward | 10.13.2009 3:15 PM

Policy

The Fine Line Between Pot Fees and Pot Prices

Jacob Sullum | 10.9.2009 11:40 AM

Politics

L.A. Declares War on Medical Marijuana Dispensaries

Brian Doherty | 10.8.2009 9:00 PM

Policy

Probation, Fine, and Financial Ruin: The Penalty for Not Committing a Crime

Jacob Sullum | 10.8.2009 2:33 PM

Policy

Scientists Try to Take the Fun Out of Drugs

Jacob Sullum | 10.8.2009 12:14 PM

Policy

You Can Show a Fat Bastard Calories, but You Can't Make Him Count

Jacob Sullum | 10.7.2009 5:41 PM

Policy

Why Skydivers Would Be Better Off Without Parachutes

Jacob Sullum | 10.5.2009 6:13 PM

Policy

Weed in Review

Peter Suderman | 10.5.2009 10:06 AM

Policy

The FDA Is Not Sure Whether Smoking Is Worse Than Not Smoking

Jacob Sullum | 10.2.2009 1:31 PM

Policy

Why Take Painkillers for Your Pain When You Can Take Up a Hobby Instead?

Jacob Sullum | 10.2.2009 11:32 AM

Policy

A Pharmaceutical Company's Truthful Fraud

Jacob Sullum | 10.1.2009 1:00 PM

Policy

Why Am I Guessing That Topsy-Turvy Positions on Medicare Will End Up Costing Us More Money?

Nick Gillespie | 9.30.2009 12:45 PM

Policy

Does High-Tech Medicine Mean Higher Health Care Costs?

A new report finds that medical innovation boosts life expectancy, but doesn't cost more

Ronald Bailey | 9.29.2009 4:30 PM

Policy

Sweet Lies About Kids and Smoking

The FDA's new ban on flavored cigarettes won't prevent teen smoking

Steve Chapman | 9.28.2009 7:00 AM

Policy

Mayor Bloomberg's Salty Tooth

Jacob Sullum | 9.24.2009 11:13 AM

Politics

Los Angeles Pot Dispensary Collective Sues the City

Brian Doherty | 9.23.2009 3:30 PM

Policy

Sometimes a Cigar Is a Cigarette

Jacob Sullum | 9.23.2009 11:41 AM

Politics

Coverage Story

Does the cost of uncompensated care justify forcing people to buy health insurance?

Jacob Sullum | 9.23.2009 7:00 AM

Policy

Camel Snus in the Tent

Jacob Sullum | 9.22.2009 6:30 PM

Politics

Reason.tv: When Cops Play Doctor—How the drug war punishes pain patients

Reason Staff | 9.22.2009 7:00 AM

Policy

The Consumer Is Not the Customer

Both parties promise to preserve one of the health care system's central problems.

Jacob Sullum | 9.16.2009 7:00 AM

Policy

The Candid Paternalism Underlying New York's Outdoor Smoking Ban

Jacob Sullum | 9.15.2009 10:46 AM

Politics

DEA Assists Medical Marijuana Raids in San Diego

Jacob Sullum | 9.11.2009 2:43 PM

Politics

"Best map you'll see on any newspaper website today"

Matt Welch | 9.10.2009 5:53 PM

Policy

Again, With Feeling: Thinner Is Not Cheaper

Jacob Sullum | 9.10.2009 12:26 PM

Policy

A Different Sort of Health Care System

Jesse Walker | 9.4.2009 4:46 PM

Policy

Drink Yourself Fit

Jacob Sullum | 9.1.2009 3:09 PM

Policy

New York City Decrees That Coffee and Tobacco Do Not Mix

Jacob Sullum | 8.31.2009 3:37 PM

Politics

L.A. Times on "Marijuana's new high life"

Matt Welch | 8.31.2009 8:31 AM

Politics

DEA Arrests Medical Marijuana Grower in California

Jacob Sullum | 8.28.2009 3:13 PM

Policy

The Evil-Mongering of the American Medical Association

Obama's cozy relationship with Big Medicine will hurt patients

Shikha Dalmia | 8.27.2009 4:30 PM

Policy

Reason Writers Around Town: Shikha Dalmia on the Real "Evil-Mongers" in the Health Care Debate

Shikha Dalmia | 8.26.2009 2:21 PM

Policy

Help! I've Reached the Obesity Tipping Point, and I Can't Get Up!

Jacob Sullum | 8.25.2009 7:28 PM

Policy

Medicare and Life Expectancy

Brian Doherty | 8.21.2009 5:53 PM