https://www.lewrockwell.com/2024/12/lew-rockwell/the-health-insurance-disaster/
The Health Insurance Disaster

By Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr.

The recent murder of Brian Thompson, the CEO of United Health Care, has led many people to claim that private health insurance is an example of what is wrong with the free market, and that we ought in consequence of its manifest failures to institute a government run single-payer system. Some ghoulish leftists went so far as to post messages on Twitter expressing joy that Thompson had been killed. The Daily Mail reports: “The assassination of UnitedHealthcare executive Brian Thompson has triggered tasteless celebrations and bad taste support for the gunman who killed him. ...

... Between 1910 and 1935, more than half of all American medical schools merged or closed. The dramatic decline was in some part due to the implementation of the Report’s recommendation that all ‘proprietary schools’ be closed and that medical schools should henceforth all be connected to universities. Of the 66 surviving MD-granting institutions in 1935, 57 were part of a university. An important factor driving the mergers and closures of medical schools was the national regulation and enforcement of medical school criteria: All state medical boards gradually adopted and enforced the Report ‘s recommendations. In response to the Flexner Report, some schools fired senior faculty members as part of a process of reform and renewal.

The situation got worse after World War II, when government tax policies encouraged employers to offer medical insurance to their employees. ......