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A Way Out of Soviet-Style Health Care: Solzhenitsyn?s prophetic warning about the depersonalization of medicine.

By ADF Alliance Alert

The Wall Street Journal has reprinted this column by the late Milton Friedman: "Is it such a great achievement? What do you mean by 'free'? The doctors don't work without pay. It's just that the patient doesn't pay them, they're paid out of the public budget. The public budget comes from these same patients. Treatment isn't free, it's just depersonalized. If the cost of it were left with the patient, he'd turn the ten rubles over and over in his hands. But when he really needed help he'd come to the doctor five times over. . . ."

Full post as published by Constitutionally Correct on March 22, 2010 (boomark / email).