David Hogberg in the Washington Times:
In nations where the government provides universal health insurance — such as Canada, Sweden and the United Kingdom — there are few restraints on citizens’ demand for health care. This leads to many citizens overusing health care and creates a strain on government budgets. To keep the costs from exploding, those governments must restrict access to health care by using waiting lists, canceling surgeries or delaying access to new treatments such as prescription drugs. The consequences can be quite harmful.
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He can include Norway on his list. here, there are absolutely no restraints on the public to pillage the healthcare system. The population is increasingly behaving like spoiled brats. They can even sue us for free…this system is bound to self-destruct.
But isn’t that the complaint of physicians here? That there are no restraints on people overusing the system?
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