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Milton Friedman Speaks: The Economics of Medical Care (B1234) - Full Video
Milton Friedman lectures to physicians on the economics of medical care, arguing that government involvement raises costs and leads toward socialized medicine. He also discusses licensing and protecting patients from quacks.
Why HN readers recommended it
HN commenters recommend it for Friedman's argument that regulation and lobbying produce a less efficient, centrally planned healthcare system.
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Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- Free To Choose Network
- Topic
- healthcare economics
- Format
- lecture
- Level
- general
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 2
- HN mentions in dataset
- 3
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2019–2022
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From the original HN conversations
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[LINK] I also like this 45 minute lecture Milton Friedman gave to physicians telling them how they were making healthcare worse due to this type of lobbying by their representatives. [VIDEO]
chimi on Hacker News · 2019-09
In ‘Out here, it’s just me’: one doctor for 11,000 square milesCareful, "for-profit" healthcare has a lot of government controls on it. Single payer is only obvious after you add a lot of controls to the market. See [LINK] and the more complete [VIDEO] . He explains how regulation eventually results in a centrally planned setup …
snagglegaggle on Hacker News · 2019-10
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