Short of lettin' cute lil wee bairns die screaming in the streets, a free medical market is a pipe dream.
There's also just the humanistic side of this. Free-market economic theory also guarantees that there will "poor people". The system can't work without the bottom rungs of the ladder in place. What if this glorious free market health care system finds its equilibrium price-point but it's out of reach for a large segment of society? How does THAT solve anything? We still gotta have people flipping burgers and pumping gas.
SINCE HATARI BROUGHT IT UP- as in, I'm not trolling here- consider for a moment the simplicity of a single-payer system. You know the cost to serve your "herd", you divide that into the size of your herd, and you come up with an unavoidable tax- say a sales tax on everything but food- to cover it, then you let the rest of your more or less free-market economy adjust to the new reality. You've now stripped out multiple layers of profit seeking from the system.
Further, while that might put a damper on cutting-edge medical "stuff".... most medicine ain't that. It's fairly straightforward stuff that doctors figured out a century ago.
It's just a thought but I agree with Hatari that it's at least worth considering given how FUBAR things are... and it's not like the AHCA fixes anything.
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