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Does Mandatory Health Insurance Make People Sick?
John Goodman's Health Policy Blog Link to more items from this source
Feb. 17, 2014
"[Data from a 1933 study] suggest that decades of insurance coverage had more than doubled recorded illness and sick days in Germany and England. It had produced more visits to physicians, though German insurance physicians estimated that 50 to 75 percent of visits were for conditions that did not need medical treatment. It had increased patient drug use, causing English physicians to complain of 'bottle addicts' who demanded prescriptions in order to get something back from the insurance scheme that they had paid into. [The study's authors] also detail how requiring physicians act as policemen for employers and gatekeepers for medical treatment paid for by others sows distrust between patient and physician, increases neuroses, and makes it almost impossible for physicians to provide 'good medical service.'"

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