While policy wonks in the U.S. are thinking about moving us to socialized medicine, the author chronicles how Canada and other nations which now have socialized medicine are moving, albeit slowly, to privatize medicine. I am particularly intrigued with his analysis of comparative death rates, he says:
In The Business of Health, Robert Ohsfeldt and John Schneider factor out intentional and unintentional injuries from life-expectancy statistics and find that Americans who don't die in car crashes or homicides outlive people in any other Western country.
In other words, our health care system works very well if you can avoid being murdered and drive safely. Most of us do both.
