What the proposed new healthcare could be like
Yuri N. Maltsev (the author)
August 21 (Mises Daily) -- In 1918, the Soviet Union became the first country to promise universal "cradle-to-grave" healthcare coverage, to be accomplished through the complete socialization of medicine. The "right to health" became a "constitutional right" of Soviet citizens. The proclaimed advantages of this system were that it would "reduce costs" and eliminate the "waste" that stemmed from "unnecessary duplication and parallelism" - i.e., competition. . . continue reading.
