“The crucial point is that any system of health care must constitute a genuine strategy-ad hoc tinkering is a guaranteed road to disaster.”

—  Nicholas Barr

Source: Economics Of The Welfare State (Fourth Edition), Chapter 12, Health And Health Care, p. 290

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