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Center for Medicine in the Public Interest

More Government in Health Care is Not a Prescription for Reform

Published in Surgery Litigation and Law Weekly, July 11th, 2008

The Center for Medicine in the Public Interest (CMPI) today launched BigGovHealth.org, a new initiative to expose the consequences of greater government control in health care.

BigGovHealth.org features powerful, first-person video testimonials from patients, health care workers and health policy experts from Canada and the United Kingdom -- two socialized systems often pointed to as models for reform. These candid interviews look at how systems that often deny and ration care impact health and well-being.

"Government-controlled health care isn't free," said CMPI chairman Michael Weber, MD, "It comes at great monetary and human cost in the form of...

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