How Government Healthcare Has Reduced Access to Hospital Beds

Tags: Interventionism, Bureaucracy and Regulation, Health

09/03/2020 Frank A. Greco

If we want to understand the numbers behind the need to "flatten the curve," we must look at how government programs like Medicare have reduced hospital capacity in recent decades.

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Original Article: "How Government Healthcare Has Reduced Access to Hospital Beds"

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