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A high price for patients: an update on government health care in Britain and Canada
Source: The Heritage Foundation
Author: James Frogue
Country: United States

Advocates of subsidized medicine often claim that the U.S. health care system should be more like the government-run health care in Canada and Britain, but moving American medicine in this direction would be a terrible mistake, resulting in long lines for treatment, substandard technology, frustrated doctors and patients, and government rationing of care. (9/26/00)

The structural problems of single-payer systems
Source: Heartland Institute/Healthcare News
Author: Richard Teske
Country: United States

The promises made by proponents of a single national health system always sound so much better than the reality. That is the Faustian bargain of all socialized economic systems. Those systems may start out in different places, but they always end up in the same place: price controls, rationed access, and second-tier quality. (08/01)

The structural problems of single-payer systems
Source: Heartland Institute/Healthcare News
Author: Richard Teske
Country: United States

The promises made by proponents of a single national health system always sound so much better than the reality. That is the Faustian bargain of all socialized economic systems. Those systems may start out in different places, but they always end up in the same place: price controls, rationed access, and second-tier quality. (08/01)

WHO cares?
Source: Reason
Author: Brian Doherty
Country: United States

"In pursuit of perpetual bureaucratic life, WHO has changed its mission from eradicating disease to a lunatic bid for never-ending social control. In a strange way, in extending its own life, WHO has rendered itself moribund." (12/20/01)

Lessons from the North
Source: PRI
Author: Sally C. Pipes
Country: United States

Pacific Research Institute study explains how government controlled health-care system in America would increase prescription costs, weaken quality care, and threaten new treatments. (MS Word file) (10/31/02)

A comparison of Britain's NHS with California's Kaiser Permanente
Source: British Medical Journal
Author: Richard G A Feachem, Neelam K Sekhri and Karen L White
Country: United States

This study compares the costs and performance of Britain's National Health Service with those of California's Kaiser Permanente HMO. "Kaiser achieved better performance at roughly the same cost as the NHS..." (01/02)

How government health care monopolies care for the mentally ill
Source: Cascade Policy Institute
Author: Linda Gorman
Country: United States

Experiments around the world with government run health care systems demonstrate that shortages are common, costs increase, technological progress slows dramatically, and quality declines when government takes control. The data also show that Americans get more for their money in the private health care marketplace. (PDF file) (11/02)

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