Who owns your body and who decides your health care decisions?
Join us for the Reason Speakeasy on Tuesday, April 8, featuring Jeffrey A. Singer, author of Your Body, Your Health Care, for a radical reframing of the relationship between individuals, the health care system, and the state.
The Reason Speakeasy is a monthly unscripted conversation with outspoken defenders of free thinking and heterodoxy in an age of intellectual conformity and groupthink. The event doubles as a live taping of The Reason Interview, hosted by Reason Editor at Large Nick Gillespie.
A practicing general surgeon for over 35 years, Jeff is a senior fellow at the Cato Institute’s Department of Health Policy Studies. His book, Your Body, Your Health Care—which releases the day of our Reason Speakeasy—offers a compelling vision for a future in which patients regain control over their health decisions and care.
Nick and Jeff will discuss the importance of personal autonomy and how the patient-practitioner relationship has been overshadowed in recent decades by paternalistic and overbearing government intervention. They’ll cover everything from prescription requirements and licensing laws to the right to self-medicate and access to harm-reduction techniques.
The Reason Speakeasy will be hosted at the Blue Building at 222 E 46th St. in Midtown Manhattan. Doors will open at 7 p.m. and Nick’s discussion with Jeff will begin at 7:30 p.m., followed by audience Q&A. Tickets are $15 and beer, wine, soft drinks, and snacks will be served.
