The myth of health insurance

From: Ideas on Liberty | Date: May 1, 2003| Author: | Copyright information

Forty million Americans are said to have no health insurance. Those who do have health insurance are frustrated by having to pay ever-increasing premiums for steadily diminishing medical services. Conventional wisdom tells us that we are facing a "health insurance crisis."

It is important to recognize that what we call "health insurance" has little to do with health and nothing to do with insurance. We do not face a "health insurance crisis." We face the consequences of a set of economic and social problems rooted in a futile effort to make the distribution of health care-unlike the ...

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