When people talk about the wonders of socialized medicine, they talk as if it were free and as comprehensive as the health care available in the United States.
Neither of these things is true. Although the United States’ health care policies are disastrous in their own ways—particularly with regard to its reliance on third-party payer systems, scammy Pharmacy Benefit Managers, and a highly bureaucratized hybrid public/private system that drives costs through the roof and provides no transparency, the socialized health care systems in most other countries are grossly inferior.
