Imaginary ‘European solution’: European models of health-care reform are not the answer

The common assumption is that Europe shares a set of policies that can serve as models of more efficient, effective, and fairer health care financing and delivery. Yet none of these assumptions can be defended with reliable evidence.

NEW HAVEN, CONN.—A curious development has emerged in right-wing versions of medicare reform in both Canada and the United States: the embrace of European models of public health care financing and delivery. Who would have thought that the Fraser Institute would celebrate the universal hea...

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