For evidence that “universal” government-run health care has become an almost theological article of faith among certain segments of our society, I need look no further than some emails received in response to my last column. In that piece, I wrote that government intrusion into health care is raising costs, devouring the federal budget, and increasing Americans’ dissatisfaction with the quality of medicine. Yet my correspondents assure me that doubling down on government involvement with some variety of “Medicare for All” will solve the problem caused by that intrusion.
They’re not alone: Progressive candidates for office, like Michigan’s U.S. Senate hopeful Abdul El-Sayed, have made the policy part of their platforms.
Well, if this country’s experience with government trespassing into patients’ relationships with their providers doesn’t convince, maybe the Canadian experience will be more persuasive.
