[Opinion]

11/3/2004: Mandatory Health Insurance! It Will Save Private Medicine -- and Spur Medical Innovation (Reason Online)

Excerpt: In an ABC News/Washington Post poll last fall, 62 percent of the respondents favored a universal, government-run medical insurance program. Such surveys reflect a widespread frustration with a health care system that is too expensive, too uncertain, and too complicated. .... The current system poses three main problems. First, it's expensive. In 2003 total spending on health care was $1.7 trillion,[.]