American Legislatifve Exchange Council - Power Grab: The States in a State of Emergency / The Model Emergency Health Powers Act

Excerpt: "[The] legislation, innocuously titled the 'Model State Emergency Health Power Act' (MEHPA), contains a number of provisions that grant state government - governors in particular - with broad, new police powers. The legislation should raise concerns of free-market health care advocates and defenders of liberty."

Heartland Institute - The Tyranny of Public Health

Excerpt: "Public health used to mean keeping statistics, imposing quarantines, requiring vaccination of children, building sewer systems, inspecting restaurants, and reviewing drugs for safety. Nowadays it means, among other things, raising cigarette taxes, banning alcohol billboards, restricting gun ownership, and forcing people to buckle their seat belts."

Heartland Institute - Demonizing Trans Fats

Excerpt: "What are we to get in return for the higher costs (and, presumably, more limited food choices) that will come with the labeling and phasing out of trans fats? The government estimates that perhaps 250 to 500 coronary heart disease deaths (out of the total 500,000 that occur annually in the U.S.) will be prevented. But those numbers are purely hypothetical: The real number of lives saved might be zero."