Salvatore J. Durante, DDS, FAGD

American Dental Association

• "Government Watch: For Whose Good?" September 1993.
• "I Urge You: Quit the ADA Now!", March 1994.
• "Government Watch: ADA Encourages Washington to Impose Price Controls on Dentists," March 1994.

Americans with Disabilities Act

• "Americans with Disabilities Act: The Latest Assault on Rights." March 1992.
• "Government Watch: Confusion and Contradiction, Update on the Americans with Disabilities Act and Mandatory Continuing Education." September 1992.

Dentists as public servants

"The Fallacy and Danger of Public Service." Oct.-Dec. 1989.

Fighting government regulation

"Government Watch: Want to Change the Law? First, Obey It." Sept. 1990.

HMOs, PPOs, and managed care

"Government Watch: 'Managed Competition' & Other Lies." March 1993.

Medical Savings Accounts

"Government Watch: The Right Plan to Support." September 1994.

Medicare

"Medicare: What It Did for Medicine, It Can Do for Dentistry." July-Sept. 1988.

SUMMARY: An evaluation of Medicare must be based on the answers to two questions: Are the assumptions and guiding principles of Medicare valid; that is, are they consistent with the requirements of a free society? And, what will the results be if those guiding principles are carried out consistently over time? This study examines developments in Medicare during the last twenty-five years, and the effects they have had on the practice of medicine. What are the principles behind these developments, and where are they leading? Do they apply to dentistry as well as medicine? What principles should one properly use in formulating policy on government health plans?

Socialized medicine / national health care

• "National Health Care: Prescription for a Fool's Paradise," with Dianne L. Durante. April 1991. A description for laymen of why socialized medicine is wrong in theory and disastrous in practice.
• "Government Watch: Is New York State the Next Target?" March 1991.
• "Government Watch: Americare: More Poison Offered as Cure." September 1991.
• "Government Watch: Socialism Lives in U.S. Health-Care Reform Proposals." March 1992.
• For more articles on free-market medicine, see the op-ed pieces sponsored by the Ayn Rand Institute, at http://www.aynrand.org and the web site of Americans for Free Choice in Medicine, at http://www.afcm.org/