Free Market
Author:
Yuri N. Maltsev
Online Publish Date:
The Free Market 8, no. 8 (August 1990) The Soviet Union was the first country to introduce a fully nationalized healthcare system. To the cheers of Western “progressives,” Lenin signed a decree in 1919 stating that every Soviet citizen had a right to free medical care. Looking at the history of Soviet health decrees, it appears as if the system