July 27, 2007

Dr. David Gratzer, an MI senior fellow and practicing Canadian physician, had an op-ed in Investor's Business Daily yesterday on the perils of socialized medicine.

Consider the recent British controversy over a cancer patient who tried to get an appointment with a specialist, only to have it canceled - 48 times. More than 1 million Britons must wait for some type of care, with 200,000 in line for longer than six months. In France, the supply of doctors is so limited that during an August 2003 heat wave - when many doctors were on vacation and hospitals were stretched beyond capacity - 15,000 elderly citizens died. Across Europe, state-of-the-art drugs aren't available. And so on.

For more of David's thoughts on health care, check out this interview on Instapundit.

Posted by Paul Howard at July 27, 2007 02:18 PM

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