Do we want socialized medicine?

By Walter E. Williams

"Problems with our health care system are leading some to fall prey to proposals calling for a nationalized single-payer health care system like Canada's or Britain's. There are a few things that we might take into consideration before falling for these proposals.

London's Observer (3/3/02) carried a story saying that an 'unpublished report shows some patients are now having to wait more than eight months for treatment, during which time many of their cancers become incurable.' Another story said, 'According to a World Health Organisation report to be published later this year, around 10,000 British people die unnecessarily from cancer each year -- three times as many as are killed on our roads.' " Read on....