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.
Is There a Health-Care Problem in Western Societies?
By Enrico Colombatto
This article
appeared in
the Winter 2011/12 issue of The Independent Review.
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| Other Independent Review articles by Enrico Colombatto | |
| Summer 2008 | The European Economy since 1945:Coordinated Capitalism and Beyond |
| Summer 2005 | Euro as Politics |
| Spring 2000 | The Crisis of Europe’s Centralized Federalism:Ambiguities of a Harmonized Currency Union |
