Milton Friedman: A Way Out of Soviet-Style Health Care

by Ariel Goldring

The Wall Street Journal has published an excerpt from a 1996 article by Milton Friedman on a way of out Soviet-style health care. Click here to read it.

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Milton Friedman: A Way Out of Soviet-Style Health Care

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