Economist Tsung-Mei Cheng has developed three Universal Laws of Health Care Systems. These are:
- No matter how good the health care in a particular country, people will complain about it.
- No matter how much money is spent on health care, the doctors and hospitals will argue it is not enough.
- The last reform always failed.
Source: The Healing of America, p. 26-27.
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