Why Not Socialized Medicine?

Walter Williams, Professor of Economics at George Mason University and all-around good guy, makes the case that socialized medicine is not the way to go: 

“There’s absolutely no mystery why our greatest complaints are in the arena of government-delivered services and the fewest in market-delivered services. In the market, there are the ruthless forces of profit, [...]

American health care system better than socialized systems

Captains Quarters Blog reports: 
A new study by the Karolinska Institute in Sweden shows that the American health care system outperforms the socialized systems in Europe in getting new medicines to cancer patients. The difference saves lives, and the existing Western European systems force people to die at higher rates from the same cancers, although the [...]