Feb 3, 2023
The concept of free government healthcare is appealing to millions of Americans. But what sounds like a good plan might be too good to be true. There are some very real and very negative consequences to handing over one-fifth of the U.S. economy to government bureaucrats. What could possibly go wrong? Well, plenty. Right here at home, we've seen government bureaucrats pretending to be health experts while pushing lockdowns and vaccine and mask mandates. We're only beginning to see the blowback from policy wonks and self-serving politicians playing doctor during COVID-19. Before that, how can we forget about the ObamaCare disaster? The government couldn't even get the website to work, and 12 years later we're still paying the ever-higher price for government overreach and intervention. We can also look beyond our borders, where nationalized medicine has already been implemented. Take Great Britain, for example. (No, really, take it.) As National Review's John Fund a