Reddit mentions of Lives at Risk: Single-Payer National Health Insurance Around the World

Socialized medicine (which is where we are heading) is incapable of giving everyone health care to a satisfactory degree. One source that does an in-depth examination is the following book Lives at Risk:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lives_at_Risk

http://www.amazon.com/Lives-Risk-Single-Payer-National-Insurance/dp/0742541525

I predict that over the next 30 years or so, we will see the breakdown of certain single-payer systems for the same reasons as the Soviet Union fell apart (economic reasons: http://mises.org/story/3543). There is no functioning price mechanism, and eventually there aren't any more resources to be wasted. Already, nations with government-run health care are liberalizing their medicine:

"The authors explain that most European countries with a national health care system have introduced market based reforms and relied on the private sector to reduce costs and increase the availability and effectiveness of health care. Some examples include the NHS has begun treating patients in private hospitals and contracting with private health care providers the Canadian health care system spends over a billion dollars annually on U.S. medical care Sweden has introduced reforms to allow more than forty percent of all heal care services to be delivered privately" - Lives at Risk

So as we start to socialize our system, other socialized systems are breaking apart.

Don't be economically and historically incompetent - socialism and collectivism do not work.