Lessons from Sweden's Universal Health System: Tales from the Health-Care Crypt.

You cannot buy anew Lexus for $20,000. Small budgets cannot buy first-class medical care either. Yet one of the most persistent arguments for single-payer health insurance is that it will somehow give everyone gold-plated care at little or no cost. There are a lot of dry statistics to prove just how wrong this notion is. But there is a side of this issue that rarely is told, especially not by advocates of a government medical monopoly. It is the story of those who pay the price for the serious rationing in a single-payer system.