Healthcare Mythology 101

I’d like to talk aboutmythology. Not Greek mythology or Norse mythology, but American Healthcare mythology. In his book, The Healing of America,TR Reid listed a number of healthcare myths he had busted in the course of researching his book. Some of theseIknew about (because I have friends who are living or have lived in countries with universal healthcare) and some I didn’t.

Myth #1: “Universal healthcare is socialized medicine!”

(sound of game show buzzer) Wrong. Apparently even Michael Moore...