Universal Health Care

[sam h]

Universal health care is something every wealthy society should have. The question is how you achieve it. There has never been a country that has achieved universal or near universal coverage of its citizens that hasn't relied heavily upon the state to do so. There is no empirical evidence that a heavily market oriented system is going to ever be able to provide decent coverage to poor people. Health care is just too expensive. In many instances, these marekt-oriented systems run very inefficiently anyway. This is the case with the American system. We probably get less bang for our health care buck than any other advanced industrial country.