David Hogberg uses Sweden’s single-payer system to provide a couple of useful object lessons regarding government-run health care:
Sweden’s health care system offers two lessons for the policymakers of the United States. The first is that a single-payer system is not the answer to the problems faced as Americans. Sweden’s system does not hold down costs and results in rationing of care. The second lesson is that market-oriented reforms must permit the market to work. Specifically, government should not protect health care providers that fail to provide patients with a quality service from going out of business.
Here’s hoping that our policy makers have eyes to see.
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