Although government health-care programs have been a tremendous drag on economic growth in most developed countries, they remain popular with large segments of the population. Moving away from a government model would likely require, not the dissemination of studies showing that it undermines prosperity, but a sea change in the way people view human dignity, individual responsibility, and natural rights.
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Other Independent Review articles by Enrico Colombatto | ||
Summer 2008 | The European Economy since 1945 | |
Summer 2005 | Euro as Politics | |
Spring 2000 | The Crisis of Europes Centralized Federalism |