On the recordMarch 17, 2010
And then if I could just add to that, addend that, is in theory, well, that's nice; you can have whatever you want whenever you want it. The problem is that taxpayers ultimately end up paying for this, and at some point you run out of taxpayers. You end up with budget limitations. And so every country that's tried this gets back to the same thing. And the only way to control cost, when you have a third payer, a government or whatever, paying the bills, is to set some rate- limiting steps, and that's basically going to be waiting lines and, of course, rationing. And what I like to tell people is, look at Cuba. Cuba has universal health care. It's free. The problem is, it's not available. They have one colonoscope in the whole country. And you may need antibiotics, and it may be free; unfortunately, they don't have any antibiotics.
