Dr. Keith Smith: "Big medicine is in big trouble"

As an eternal optimist, I would say that big medicine is in big trouble.  The system is dysfunctional, but people are waking up.  There are alternatives out there that are free market, and people are becoming aware that they exist, that they work.  With this awareness, it becomes real tough for the big monsters—that is, the cartel that controls the strings with their pal, Uncle Sam—to continue driving the getaway car in this heist.

~ G. Keith Smith, MD, co-founder of Surgery Center of Oklahoma, "The Free Market Medical Revolution," The Austrian, July-August 2022

Tom DiLorenzo on the American response to the public health bureaucracy

Once the “public health” bureaucracy declared a pandemic, millions of Americans instantly turned into mental infants, eager for the D.C. bureaucracy to become their real mommies and daddies and protect them from the big bad coronavirus wolf.

~ Tom DiLorenzo, "Why 'Public Health' is the Health of the State," LewRockwell.com, April 14, 2021

Jim Grant compares medical authorities to economic authorities

The medical authorities remind me of the economic authorities.  Both pretend to draw a bead on the future. Let’s compare them both to the meteorological authorities.  The National Weather Service spends over a billion dollars a year and takes tens of millions, if not billions, of discrete observations of wind, weather, tide, temperature, what have you.  But notice the 5 and 10 day forecasts on your trusty iPhone are ever changing.  This is the weather.  Temperature gradients don’t have feelings, they don’t get jealous of the millionaire next door, they don’t watch CNBC, yet our forecasting ability goes out maximum 10 days. Even so, the economists think nothing of calling next year’s GDP.

~ Jim Grant, "Living Economic History: Q&A with Jim Grant, The Coffee Can Portfolio, December 10, 2020