The Health-Care Lemon

Nick Gillespie at Reason points us to this great short by Stuart Browning on the perils of government-run health care.

What’s great about this is that Browning has done more than recap the basic problems with socialized medicine; he’s actually gone out and found the human side of the story, taking a (painful, I think) look at the personal costs that come when government gets put in charge of health care. Universal coverage advocates love to trot out personal anecdotes in service of their arguments — often times instead of them. But it should be remembered that liberals don’t have a monopoly on such stories. Government-run medicine has a deep, personal cost as well.