Le traitement par l’Organisation mondiale de la santé des substituts au tabac que sont le vapotage et les e-cigarettes démontre l’ineptie de cette bureaucratie tyrannique. Pour la deuxième fois en deux ans, nous avons été présents dans la tribune publique d’une conférence des Nations unies à Genève lorsqu’un haut fonctionnaire de l’ONU nous a dit […]
An Evaluation of Private Governance: Creating Order in Economic and Social Life
The ideological foes of Edward Stringham’s book Private Governance: Creating Order in Economic and Social Life are many. Principally, it is an argument against the “legal centrist” mentality, according to Stringham, the practitioners of which are bound to place the role of the state as central to private economic transactions and exchanges. They look to […]
Healthcare is a racket – is direct primary care the answer?
CCC Deputy Director Yaël Ossowski is interviewed on Wilmington’s Big Talk 106.7FM by Joe Catenacci about direct primary care, a new way of empowering consumers in the American healthcare system. http://consumerchoicecenter.org https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/the-healthcare-system-is-a-racket-direct-primary-care-could-fix-it
Birthright citizenship helped make America great
The United States has always been an exceptional country. Its Constitution and amendments, along with its founding, inherent rights, and the arguments over the role of the state have provided a glowing example for the world to follow. Freedom of the press, right to privacy, abolishment of slavery, and birthright citizenship in the 14th Amendment […]
Si la CAQ souhaite promouvoir l’économie, il faut s’ouvrir au cannabis
Le nouveau premier ministre du Québec François Legault, de la Coalition Avenir Québec (CAQ), dit qu’il veut remettre plus d’argent dans les portefeuilles des Québécois. Et maintenant que la CAQ a le mandat d’un gouvernement majoritaire, les paroles vont bientôt se transformer en actions. Legault et la CAQ ont déjà déclaré qu’ils sont en faveur […]
The healthcare system is a racket — direct primary care could fix it
Everyone has a healthcare horror story. A hidden charge on the hospital bill. A last minute test or scan that ends up costing four figures. Hours spent on the phone with insurance companies to follow up on a claim and get a reimbursement. Prescriptions costing hundreds of dollars. And it’s getting more expensive. Since 2007, […]
Quebec Should Embrace Cannabis To Promote The Economy
The CAQ’s anti-pot stance is sure to hurt consumers and citizens in Quebec. The new Quebec premier Francois Legault of the Coalition Avenir Quebec says he wants to put more money in the pockets of Quebecers. And now that the CAQ has the mandate of a majority government, his words will soon turn into actions. […]
WHO’s afraid of vaping
The war on vaping is a threat to public health (photo via vaping360) By Yaël Ossowski | spiked For the second time in two years, I sat in the public gallery at a United Nations conference in Geneva as a senior UN bureaucrat told us that all members of the media and public were to […]
The Myths about Money in Politics Are Worse Than the Reality
Claims about the dangers of money in politics are riddled with ignorance and hypocrisy In each election cycle, there’s a ritual to the mantra about the role of money and how it influences our politics. It was triggered incessantly during the 2012 presidential race between Mitt Romney and Barack Obama, only to see the conservative […]