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A research organization focusing on free-market health care reform and tax policy.
http://www.galen.org/

The founder, John Hammell, has been fighting for health freedom for 10 years, and first got involved with alternative medicine after recovering from a life threatening illness via a suppressed alternative treatment (orthomolecular medicine) after mainstream methods almost killed him. He believes it to be highly immoral for anyone to try to restrict the availability of herbs and supplements or to do anything which would hamper consumer access.
http://www.iahf.com/index1.html

Promotes the philosophy of individual rights, personal responsibility and free market economics in the health care industry.
http://www.afcm.org/

Established to bring the issues of personal health freedom to the forefront of America's health policy debate, IHF's mission is to present the ethical and economic case for strengthening personal health freedom.
http://www.forhealthfreedom.org/

A non-partisan professional association of physicians, dedicated to the highest ethical standards of the Oath of Hippocrates and to preserving the sanctity of the patient-physician relationship and the practice of private medicine.
http://www.aapsonline.org/aaps/

This collection of essays makes the moral and practical case for a complete free market in healthcare.
http://www.amatecon.com/etext/dosm/dosm.html

The NCPA has one of the largest collections of papers and articles on health care policy online.
http://www.public-policy.org/~ncpa/pi/health/hedex1.html

This list of online papers from the Cato Institute includes studies on demonstrating the practical superiority of Medical Savings Accounts over managed health care type plans, moving the FDA's pharmaceutical and medical device approval responsibilities into the private sector, and allowing Americans to opt-out of Medicare and into private insurance arrangements.
http://www.cato.org/research/healt-st.html

Just three years after the American public rejected government-run health care, Democrats and Republicans in Congress are taking away consumers' control over their own health care decisions. CSE campaigns for consumer choice in health care.
http://www.cse.org/informed/healthcare.html

Bad food in Canadian Hospitals is symptomatic of the problems of a single-payer health care system.
http://www.mackinac.org/article.asp?ID=2748

An article on health care and welfare by David Kelley of The Objectivist Center
http://www.objectivistcenter.org...dkelley_right-to-health-care.asp

Articles, links, figures and facts exposing the devastation resulting from so-called "Universal Health Care."
http://www.angelfire.com/pa/serg...ssues/healthcare/socialized.html

The Heartland Institute's national monthly outreach publication for free-market health care reform, with 100s of articles on malpractice reform and the uninsured.
http://www.heartland.org/Publications.cfm?pblId=2

Regular updates on U.S. health care reform as well as links to related news articles.
http://cfmresearch.tripod.com/loosingourway/

http://www.heritage.org/Research/HealthCare/index.cfm

A site dedicated to the proposition that the free market can provide high-quality, reasonably-priced health care without government intervention.
http://www.marketmed.org/

CNE Health is a forum for exploring market based ideas and policy proposals which put the patient at the forefront of health care. The sites includes The Puls, a weblog.
http://www.cnehealth.org/