In ‘Data Never Tell a Story; They Must Be Interpreted’ David R. Henderson looks at socialized (and semi-socialized) medicine:
When governments run medical systems, they systematically overprovide services of general practitioners and underprovide specialists’ services. That way, they can look good to the majority of citizens, who are healthy and who judge the system by whether they can get a doctor’s appointment, not by whether they must wait 40 weeks from referral by a general practitioner to surgery by an orthopedist.