Private versus Government Health Insurance: They Are Not the Same

Tags: Bureaucracy and Regulation, Free Markets

11/13/2022 Łukasz Jasiński

Government programs like Medicare are called insurance, yet they are anything but. There is a difference between public and private plans.

Original Article: “Private versus Government Health Insurance: They Are Not the Same “

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