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Government-Run Health Care: Not All It’s Cracked Up to Be

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Government-Run Health Care: Not All It’s Cracked Up to Be
A National Health Service sign is pictured outside St Thomas' Hospital, near the Houses of Parliament in central London on March 8, 2017. Ben Stansall/AFP/Getty Images
Mark Hendrickson
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Last fall, the possibility of an acute energy shortage was the major issue concerning the people of the UK. Well, I have good news and bad news: The good news is that the combination of a warmer-than-expected winter and rapid adjustments in energy markets averted that nightmare scenario. The bad news is that another kind of shortage has hit the UK hard and is of major concern there: a shortage of health care.

Mark Hendrickson
Mark Hendrickson
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Mark Hendrickson is an economist who retired from the faculty of Grove City College in Pennsylvania, where he remains fellow for economic and social policy at the Institute for Faith and Freedom. He is the author of several books on topics as varied as American economic history, anonymous characters in the Bible, the wealth inequality issue, and climate change, among others.
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