Most Americans want to repeal and replace Obamacare ("Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act"). However, which reforms would contribute the most to making high-quality healthcare affordable and accessible? In this upcoming event and based on his new book Priceless: Curing the Healthcare Crisis, Dr. John C. Goodman will take the Affordable Care Act (ACA) to task, reject Obamacare, and offer a no-nonsense approach to healthcare reform.

Emmy Award and Peabody Award–winning TV journalist John Stossel has long argued that the government is not a neutral arbiter of truth. A self-described skeptic, he has dismantled society’s sacred cows with unerring common sense. Now he debunks the most sacred of them all: the belief that government can solve our problems.

With perpetual wars, bailouts, fiscal insolvency, and the continuing degradation of civil liberties, the country has no hope for righting itself without a return to “First Principles.” As Vern McKinley, Stephen Halbrook, and Don Boudreaux will show, these principles are fiscal responsibility, limited government, strong protection of civil liberties and the right to bear arms, and a commitment to promoting free, peaceful, and prosperous societies. Join us at this great event that will be followed promptly by a book signing with the authors.

On November 15, 2011, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate and former President of Poland, Lech Wałęsa, Nobel Laureate Mario Vargas Llosa, and Dr. Robert Higgs were honored at the Independent Institute’s 25th Anniversary Gala Reception and Dinner. Each honoree received the Alexis de Tocqueville Award in recognition of their exceptional contributions to humanity in advancing the ideas and ideals of individual liberty, entrepreneurship, personal responsibility, civic virtue, and the rule of law.