The Freeman 1972 - The Ludwig von Mises Institute

576 THE FREEMANwith them; we know what theyprovide and what they cost, andwe know the agent who servicesthem. We know our doctors andmost of-us have confidence inthem. . . . National Health Insurancewill destroy private insurance.In return, its advocatespromise to solve a fictional healthcrisis. . . . Government has madesimilar promises in the past: Ithas promised to solve the problemsof agriculture,. of housing, ofwelfare. Instead, government interventionhas compounded theproblems. Do you and I want tospend from twelve to eighty billiona year to replace private medicalcare with government medicalprograms that have failed whereverthey have been tried?"Marvin Edwards has made apowerful case. Hopefully, it willprovide a new and important dimensionto the, thus far, one-sidedpublic discussion of this truly lifeand death question. ~CORRECTION:Dr. Sanborn's book, What,How, For Whom, reviewed inthe August 1972 issue of THEFREEMAN, does not state specificallythat the author favorsconscription. The author leavesthe question open for the studentto decide.GARY NORTHHANDSOME BLUE lEATHERLEXFREEMANBINDERS$2.50 eachORDER FROM: THE FOUNDATION FOR ECONOMIC EDUCATIONIRVINGTON-ON-HUDSON, NEW YORK 10533