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Posted on January 20, 2017June 12, 2026

The Real Right to Medical Care vs. Socialized Medicine

(Summary of George Reisman essay published in Serial 104-49 for the use of the Committee on Ways and Means by the U.S. Government Printing Office in 1996.)

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