Free Market
Author:
Yuri N. Maltsev
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The Free Market 27, no. 10 (October 2009) In 1918, the Soviet Union became the first country to promise universal “cradle-to-grave” healthcare coverage, to be accomplished through the complete socialization of medicine. The “right to health” became a “constitutional right” of Soviet citizens. The proclaimed advantages of this system were that it