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From: RM
Sent: Mon 11/21/2016 12:41 PM
To: Walter Block
Subject: Healthcare
Professor, I was arguing with some Liberals the other day that increasing subsidies to the poor for health insurance would only continue to drive prices higher. I suggest that the lower income be provided with vouchers that they could use to either receive Medicaid, fully paid for, or to use toward the purchase of private insurance. I argued that competition is the driving factor of lower prices. Please enlighten me. Hope all is well. By the way, I’m thrilled that The Donald is president-elect. RM

Dear RM: See below for a bibliography criticizing vouchers, and another one doing so for socialized medicine. Unhappily, I have nothing on the overlap of the two. Hopefully, you can deduce from both separate topics the answer to your question.

Dear Everyone Else: Again, I ask for additions to these lists of mine.

Vouchers:

http://www.google.com/search?oe=utf8&ie=utf8&source=uds&start=0&hl=en&q=school+voucher+site%3Amises.org

Gordon, 2011; North, 1976, 2011; North and Friedman, 1993; Rockwell, 1998, 2000, 2002; Reel and Block, 2013; Rome and Block. 2006; Rothbard, 1971, 1973, 1994, 1995; Salisbury, 2003; Vance, 1996; Yates, 2002a, 2002b; Young and Block. 1999.

Gordon, David. 2011. “What Is Libertarianism?” August 29;
https://archive.lewrockwell.com/gordon/gordon90.1.html

North, Gary. 1976. “Educational Vouchers: The Double Tax,” The Freeman, Vol. 26, No. 5; http://www.thefreemanonline.org/featured/educational-vouchers-the-double-tax
http://www.thefreemanonline.org/columns/friedman-and-north-on-vouchers/

North, Gary. 2011. “Just Say No to School Vouchers . . . Again.” June 30; https://archive.lewrockwell.com/north/north999.html

North, Gary and Milton Friedman. 1993. “Friedman and North on Vouchers.” July 1;
http://www.fee.org/the_freeman/detail/friedman-and-north-on-vouchers/#axzz2nGM6q4us

Reel, Jordan and Walter E. Block. 2013. “Educational Vouchers: Freedom to Choose?” Contemporary Economics. pp. 111-122, December, DOI:10.5709/ce.1897-9254.126 http://we.vizja.pl/en/home; http://ce.vizja.pl/en/issues/volume/7/issue/4#art328

Rockwell, Jr., Llewellyn H. 1998. “Vouchers: Enemy of Religion,” [webpage] 1 September. [cited 12 May 2005]. <http://www.mises.org/fullstory.aspx?control=106&id=79.

Rockwell Jr. Llewellyn H. 2000. “Education and the Election.”
https://www.lewrockwell.com/rockwell/educationandelection.html

Rockwell Jr. Llewellyn H. 2002. “Vouchers: Another Name for Welfare. July 2. https://www.lewrockwell.com/rockwell/voucher2.html

Rome, Gregory and Walter E. Block. 2006. “Schoolhouse Socialism.” Journal of Instructional Psychology, Vol. 33, No. 1, pp. 83-88; http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0FCG/is_1_33/ai_n16118909/?tag=content;col1

Rothbard, Murray N. 1971. “Milton Friedman Unraveled.” Individualist, February, pp. 3 7; https://www.lewrockwell.com/rothbard/rothbard43.html

Rothbard, Murray N. 1973. For a New Liberty, Macmillan, New York;
http://www.mises.org/rothbard/newliberty.asp

Rothbard, Murray N. 1994. “Vouchers: What Went Wrong?” The Free Market. Auburn, AL: The Ludwig von Mises Institute, January, pp. 1, 8; http://mises.org/econsense/ch43.asp

Rothbard, Murray N. 1995. Making Economic Sense. Auburn, AL: Mises Institute;
http://mises.org/econsense/econsense.asp
"It is no crime to be ignorant of economics, which is, after all, a specialized discipline and one that most people consider to be a 'dismal science.' But it is totally irresponsible to have a loud and vociferous opinion on economic subjects while remaining in this state of ignorance."

Salisbury, David F. 2003. “What Does a Voucher Buy? A Closer Look at the Cost of Private Schools.” Cato Institute Policy Analysis, No. 486, August 28.

Vance, Laurence M. 1996. “Friedman’s Mistake.” The Free Market. Vol. 14, No. 11. November;
http://mises.org/freemarket_detail.aspx?control=158

Yates, Steven. 2002a. “Vouchers and Government Control.” July 6;
https://www.lewrockwell.com/yates/yates58.html

Yates, Steven. 2002b. “Refuting the voucherites.” July 13;
https://www.lewrockwell.com/yates/yates59.html

Young, Andrew and Walter E. Block. 1999. “Enterprising Education: Doing Away with the Public School System,” International Journal of Value Based Management, Vol.12, No. 3, pp. 195-207; http://www.mises.org/etexts/enterprisingedu.pdf; http://www.mises.org/story/2216; http://www.walterblock.com/publications/enterprising_education.pdf

Charter schools:

Rockwell Jr., Llewellyn H. 1999. “The Wrong Path to Reform .” September 30;
http://mises.org/daily/306/

Socialized medicine:: health care:

Block, 2003; Friedman, 1962; Goodman and Musgrave, 1992; Gratzer, 2005; Hamowy, 1984; Herbener, 1996; Holly, 2013; Hoppe, 1993; Johnson, et.al., 1998; Laydon and Block, 1996; Terrell, 2003.

Block, Walter. 2003. “Socialized Medicine is the Problem,” Surgical Neurology, Vol. 60, No. 5, November, pp. 467-46

Friedman, Milton. 1962. Capitalism and Freedom, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, chapter 9

Goodman, John C. and Gerald L. Musgrave, 1992. Patient Power: Solving America's Health Care Crisis. Washington D.C.: Cato

Gratzer, David. 2005. “The Return of HillaryCare: Socialized medicine is still not a good idea. The Weekly Standard. May 23; http://www.medicalprogresstoday.com/spotlight/spotlight_indarchive.php?id=778

Hamowy, Ronald. 1984. Canadian Medicine: A Study in Restricted Entry, Vancouver: The Fraser Institute

Herbener, Jeffrey. 1996. “Socialized Medicine, Take Two.” The Free Market. Vol. 14, No. 7, July. http://www.mises.org/freemarket_detail.asp?control=172&sortorder=articledate

Holly, Mike.2013. “How Government Regulations Made Healthcare So Expensive.” December 17;
http://bastiat.mises.org/2013/12/how-government-regulations-made-healthcare-so-expensive/

Hoppe, Hans-Hermann. 1993. “A Four-Step Health-Care Solution.” The Free Market. Vol. 11, No. 4, April; http://www.mises.org/freemarket_detail.asp?control=279

Johnson, Clint, Walter E. Block and Thomas Oxner. 1998. "Notes on Health Care Financing and Free Markets," Journal of Accounting, Ethics and Public Policy, Vol. 1, No. 3, Summer 1998, pp. 488-502.

Layden, William R. and Walter E. Block. 1996. "Health Security," Nomos, July, No. 47/48, pp. 38-45

Terrell, Timothy D. 2003. “Socialized Medicine in America.” The Free Market. Vol. 23, No. 11, November; http://www.mises.org/freemarket_detail.asp?control=458&sortorder=articledate

Socialized medicine: queues:

Barua, et. al., 2010; DiLorenzo, 2009; Esmail, 2009A, 2009B, 2011; Globerman and Hoye, 1990; Hazel and Esmail, 2008; Sanmartin et al., 2004;

Barua, Bacchus, Mark Rovere, and Brett J. Skinner. 2010. Waiting Your Turn: Wait Times for Health Care in Canada (20th ed.). Fraser Institute.

DiLorenzo, Thomas J. 2009. “Socialized Healthcare vs. The Laws Of Economics,” Mises Daily, no. 3586; July 28; http://mises.org/daily/3586

Esmail, Nadeem. 2009A. Waiting Your Turn: Hospital Waiting Lists in Canada (19th ed.). Fraser Institute

Esmail, Nadeem. 2009B. The Private Cost Of Public Queues, 2009. Fraser Forum (November):32-36.

Esmail, Nadeem. 2011. “The private cost of public queues.” Fraser Forum, March/April, pp. 22-27; http://www.fraserinstitute.org/uploadedFiles/fraser-ca/Content/research-news/research/articles/private-cost-of-public-queues-march2011.pdf

Globerman, Steven, with Lorna Hoye. 1990. Waiting Your Turn: Hospital Waiting Lists in Canada. Fraser Institute.

Hazel, Maureen and Nadeem Esmail. 2008. The Private Cost of Public Queues. Fraser Forum (December/January):25–29.

Sanmartin, Claudia, François Gendron, Jean-Marie Berthelot, and Kellie Murphy. 2004. Access to Health Care Services in Canada, 2003. Catalogue No. 82-575-XIE.

H.T. Engelhardt, Jr., and Kevin W. Wildes, S.J., “The Four Principles of Health Care and Post-Modernity: Why a Libertarian Interpretation is Unavoidable,” Principles of Health Care Ethics, ed. Raanan Gillon (New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1994), pp. 135-147.

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