There has been a steady erosion in the number of vaccine producers in the U.S.A. over the past three decades. In the 1970s, there were 25 vaccine makers; today – because of slim profit margins and legislative and liability issues –there are just five. With such a small number of
Whenever trade is debated in Washington, the focus is almost exclusively on its impact on producers and jobs virtually never on the benefits of import competition for American consumers. This is a serious oversight, because consumers reap huge benefits from the freedom to buy goods and services from
Restrictive firearm legislation has failed to reduce violent crime in Australia, Canada or Great Britain. Moreover, the policy of confiscating guns has been an expensive failure. Ironically, criminal violence has not decreased, but instead, continues to increase, notes Gary Mauser (Fraser Institute).
Since the introduction of restrictive firearms laws more
Lawmakers agree that for the economy to grow, corporate taxes must be cut. But wait! This isn’t news out of Washington. It’s from Prague. It seems that the former Soviet bloc nation is employing the lessons that we’ve forgotten, says Investor’s Business Daily (IBD).
In the Czech
Hospitals everywhere tend to be dirty. But in Britain they can be lethal.
Critics place the blame on Britain's socialised health care system. Like all other collectivist systems, it lacks the proper incentives necessary to ensure quality performance. National Health System (NHS) hospitals fail to meet even the most basic hygiene
Short-term relief, followed by long-term disaster is not sound policy. Nonetheless, that could be a result of the AIDS strategy being contemplated by the World Health Organisation, which on December 1 World AIDS Day announced a plan to treat 3 million people with HIV/AIDS by 2005. The WHO
