The annual Economic Freedom of the World report, including an index of country rankings, has just been released, and it should be a wake-up call.
Americans are enjoying the performance of Team USA in the Summer Olympics. In the olympics of economic freedom, the United States is way behind. Right now, we're not even close to the bronze medal. We're in 10th place and not improving.
Pablo Picasso observed, "To copy others is necessary, but to copy oneself is pathetic." Is anyone more pathetic than Arnold Relman, the former editor of the New England Journal of Medicine, who continually writes about why America should adopt the Canadian health care system? There is. It's Arnold Relman himself, writing in Canada about why Canadians shouldn't abandon the Canadian health care system.
Canada, once considered the bedrock of national health care systems, is in the beginning stages of change toward free-market health insurance.
Canada, once considered the bedrock of national health care systems, is in the beginning stages of change toward free-market health insurance.
