The myth of health insurance

Foundation for Economic Education
Posted: September 3rd, 2007 by Steve Trinward
Author: Thomas Szasz

“Forty million Americans are said to have no health insurance. Those who do have health insurance are frustrated by having to pay ever-increasing premiums for steadily diminishing medical services. Conventional wisdom tells us that we are facing a ‘health insurance crisis.’ It is important to recognize that what we call ‘health insurance’ has little to do with health and nothing to do with insurance.” [editor’s note: The “40 million” figure has also recently been debunked, by John Stossell using U.S. Census data - SAT] (written 05/03; posted 09/03/07)

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