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“I believe that this trend [towards increasing government involvement in medical care], including many of the steps that have already been taken, is very much against the interests of patients, of physicians and of other health care personnel,” Milton Friedman warned a Mayo Clinic audience thirty years ago. We know in our gut that socialized medicine won’t work in our interests because the incentives are perversely turned upside down when government, not the patient, is client. Friedman explains:

Milton Friedman at the Mayo clinic 30 years ago.

Socialized Medicine for Stupid People
(h/t Sissy in the spinoffs)