What Soviet Medicine Teaches Us
In 1918, the Soviet Union became the first country to promise universal “cradle-to-grave” healthcare, writes Yuri N. Maltsev.
In 1918, the Soviet Union became the first country to promise universal “cradle-to-grave” healthcare, writes Yuri N. Maltsev.
The US healthcare system is a huge bubble fueled by the government's ability to borrow money at artificially low interest rates.
First they came for the cigarettes, then Hank Williams Jr. got knocked off Monday Night Football.
Presented to the Young Americans for Liberty. Hosted at the Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama, on 13 September 2011.
Remarkably, however, the patron of the famous clinic did not have a medical license.
The US healthcare system is a complex leviathan of interdependent cartels rather than a free market.
We should hope that the medical art is not co-opted by governing elites (including those with an MD or MPH after their name) who believe that practicing medicine is as easy as checking off boxes and interpreting numbers on a computer screen. Such a simplistic view is undoubtedly a fatal conceit.
There is a revolution afoot, one that is happening much more quickly than the Industrial Revolution.