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Bestselling author T. R. Reid guides a whirlwind tour of successful health care systems worldwide, revealing possible paths toward U.S. reform. In The Healing of America, New York Times bestselling author T. R. Reid shows how all the other industrialized democracies have achieved something the United States canÂ’t seem to do: provide health care for everybody at a reasonable cost. In his global quest to... (more)

Catastrophe

And how to fight back

by Dick Morris, Eileen McGann

It's time to take back our country. Now. It's that simple. It's that urgent. So begins Dick Morris and Eileen McGann's latest and most important book. They say that we must act before President Barack Obama fully implements his radical political agenda. Because after Obama has won his war on prosperity and canceled the war on terror, it will be too late to regain our liberty or our security. At a time when we... (more)

The Wisdom of Whores: Bureaucrats, Brothels, and the Business of AIDS

The Wisdom of Whores: Bureaucrats, Brothels, and the Business of AIDS

by Elizabeth Pisani

A flame-throwing epidemiologist talks about sex, drugs, and the mistakes (dismal), ideologies (vicious), and hopes (realistic) of international AIDS prevention. When people ask Elizabeth Pisani what she does for a living, she says, "sex and drugs." As an epidemiologist researching AIDS, she's been involved with international efforts to halt the disease for fourteen... (more)

In Our Hands : A Plan To Replace The Welfare State

In Our Hands : A Plan To Replace The Welfare State

by Charles A. Murray

Murray offers a plan to eliminate all federal welfare programs and to substitute a $10,000 annual cash grant for everyone age 21 or older.

Management Lessons from Mayo Clinic: Prescriptions for Service Success

Management Lessons from Mayo Clinic: Prescriptions for Service Success

by Leonard L. Berry, Kent Seltman

Management Lessons from Mayo Clinic reveals for the first time how this complex service organization fosters a culture that exceeds customer expectations and earns deep loyalty from both customers and employees. Service business authority Leonard Berry and Mayo Clinic marketing administrator Kent Seltman explain how the Clinic implements and maintains its strategy, adheres to its management system, executes its... (more)

EconoPower: How a New Generation of Economists is Transforming the World

EconoPower: How a New Generation of Economists is Transforming the World

by Mark Skousen

EconoPower will provide you with a firm understanding of the influence of modern economics and how it can be used to improve the world we live in. It offers practical advice on numerous personal financial matters—earning, saving, investing, and retiring—based on the breakthrough contributions of behavioral economists. And it looks at how economists are working successfully on issues such as public education,... (more)

Applied Economics: Thinking Beyond Stage One

Applied Economics: Thinking Beyond Stage One

by Thomas Sowell

This revised edition of Applied Economics is about fifty percent larger than the first edition. It now includes a chapter on the economics of immigration and new sections of other chapters on such topics as the “creative” financing of home-buying that led to the current “subprime” mortgage crisis, the economics of organ transplants, and the political and economic incentives that lead to money earmarked for... (more)

Naked Economics: Undressing the Dismal Science

Naked Economics: Undressing the Dismal Science

by Charles J. Wheelan

Finally! A book about economics that won't put you to sleep. In fact, you won't be able to put this one down. Naked Economics makes up for all of those Econ 101 lectures you slept through (or avoided) in college, demystifying key concepts, laying bare the truths behind the numbers, and answering those questions you have always been too embarrassed to ask. For all the discussion of Alan Greenspan in the... (more)

Do the Right Thing: The People's Economist Speaks (Hoover Institution Press Publication)

Do the Right Thing: The People's Economist Speaks (Hoover Institution Press Publication)

by Walter E. Williams

Nationally syndicated columnist Walter E. Williams is chairmain of the economic department at George Mason University. This thought-provoking book contains nearly one hundred of William's most popular essays on race and sex, government, education, environment and health, law and society, international politics, and other controversial topics.

What Has Government Done to Our Health Care?Wasley

What Has Government Done to Our Health Care?

by Terree P. Wasley

Traces our health care problems back to government intervention.

Hard Facts, Dangerous Half-Truths And Total Nonsense: Profiting From Evidence-Based Management

Hard Facts, Dangerous Half-Truths And Total Nonsense: Profiting From Evidence-Based Management

by Robert I. Sutton

The best organizations have the best talent. . . Financial incentives drive company performance. . . Firms must change or die. Popular axioms like these drive business decisions every day. Yet too much common management "wisdom" isn’t wise at all—but, instead, flawed knowledge based on "best practices" that are actually poor, incomplete, or outright obsolete. Worse, legions of managers use this dubious knowledge... (more)

Myths, Lies and Downright Stupidity: Get Out the Shovel - Why Everything You Know Is Wrong

Myths, Lies and Downright Stupidity: Get Out the Shovel - Why Everything You Know Is Wrong

by John Stossel

A mericas favorite investigative reporter, John Stossel, tackles our favorite myths in his characteristic style and challenges us to look at life differently. Myths and Misconceptions covered in the book include: lIs the media unbiased? lAre our schools helping or hurting our kids? lDo singles have a better sex life than married people? lDo we have less free time than we used to? lIs outsourcing bad for American... (more)

A Taste of My Own Medicine: When the Doctor Is the PatientEdward E. Rosenbaum

A Taste of My Own Medicine: When the Doctor Is the Patient

by Edward E. Rosenbaum

There's nothing unusual about a patient venting spleen at the doctor, but in this instance the patient is a doctor. And with his forceful, angry book he establishes himself as a "patient advocate," for during his own recent medical treatment, rheumatologist Rosenbaum "learned more about handling the seriously ill . . . than in 50 years of practice." His comment gives the reader pause: not only is the author a... (more)

Your Doctor Is Not In : Healthy Skepticism About National Health Care

Your Doctor Is Not In : Healthy Skepticism About National Health Care

by Jane M. Orient

A brilliant, committed, politically conservative doctor argues for solutions to the crisis in medicine that are fundamentally opposed to those being widely touted today. Your Doctor Is Not In does for medicine what Allan Bloom did for education in The Closing of the American Mind. Line drawings.

Medical Warrior: Fighting Corporate Socialized Medicine

Medical Warrior: Fighting Corporate Socialized Medicine

by Miguel A. Faria

Liberty versus the Tyranny of Socialism: Controversial Essays

Liberty versus the Tyranny of Socialism: Controversial Essays

by Walter E. Williams

In unyielding defense of personal liberty In this selected collection of his syndicated newspaper columns, Walter E. Williams once again takes on the left wing's most sacred cows with provocative insights and brutal honesty. He offers his sometimes controversial views on education, health, the environment, government, law and society, race, and a range of other topics, always with an uncompromising reverence for... (more)

Reflections of a Political Economist: Selected Articles on Government Policies and Political Processes

Reflections of a Political Economist: Selected Articles on Government Policies and Political Processes

by William A. Niskanen

Reflections of a Political Economist collects some of the most incisive and important policy analysis and public choice articles by William A. Niskanen from the last fifteen years. His interests have ranged widely during this time, covering many different areas of public policy, always with an eye toward rigorous economic thinking, fiscal conservatism, and finding shrewd, practical solutions to important problems.... (more)

The Strategic Pricing of Pharmaceuticals

The Strategic Pricing of Pharmaceuticals

by E.M. (Mick) Kolassa, Ph.D.

The Strategic Pricing of Pharmaceuticals explains how pharmaceutical prices are, and should be set, in the US and international markets. The book discusses how pharmaceuticals are different from other products in terms of value and why typical assumptions and approaches to pricing fail to consider the true nature of pharmaceuticals or to capture their value. This book provides pharmaceutical marketers with needed... (more)

by John C. Goodman

A popular explanation of how tax-free medical savings accounts would work. Strippable.

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Tags: health care reform

A Global Quest for Better, Cheaper and Fairer Health Care

by T. R. Reid

And how to fight back

by Dick Morris, Eileen McGann

by Elizabeth Pisani

by Charles A. Murray

by Leonard L. Berry, Kent Seltman

by Mark Skousen

by Thomas Sowell

by Charles J. Wheelan

by Walter E. Williams

by Terree P. Wasley

by Robert I. Sutton

by John Stossel

by Edward E. Rosenbaum

by Jane M. Orient

by Miguel A. Faria

by Walter E. Williams

by William A. Niskanen

by E.M. (Mick) Kolassa, Ph.D.

by John C. Goodman