
Free Market Healthcare Starting Strength Radio #167
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Hill Burton and the Peppering
The hill burton act was a harry truman's brain child, and that's what put a hospital in almost every county in the united states. Once those hospitals were in existence, they did not want to collect their money from individual patients. They wanted to plug directly into the taxpayer trough. So i don't think it's any coincidence that following hill burton and the peppering, the metastisis of government hospitals all over the country was very quickly followed by a mechanism for them to be paid directly by government.
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