The Price of Universal Health Care: Our Freedom

Posted by Gerald P. O'Driscoll

In today’s Wall Street Journal,  Thomas Szasz argues that universal health care is impossible and the quest for it will cost us our freedom.  “If we persevere in our quixotic quest for a fetishized medical equality we will sacrifice personal freedom as its price.”

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