Socialist Health Care Gets Expensive in New York City

City Journal reports:

New York’s Medicaid program, nearly as large as next-largest California’s and Texas’s together, is the racket’s biggest component. It provides almost every imaginable service, including Viagra, fertility treatments, and lightly regulated services that seem designed to invite fraud, such as ambulette rides to and from doctors’ appointments. Medicaid’s spectacularly high reimbursement rates for inpatient services have long served as a life-support system for the state’s hospitals and nursing homes. And New York just covers more people: nearly one out of every five state residents participates in the program, including children of working parents, who could pay for insurance through their employers. The New York City health department notes that Medicaid paid for 52 percent of the babies born in the city last year.

No word yet from those who complain about "expensive" marketing costs in the private sector health insurance.