Originally Posted By: Sinj
Market-driven health care could not function well by definition. Any functional market-driven system depends on consumer having real choice to walk away and not consume, and that is never the case with healthcare.


False. If the government would get out of the way and allow insurance companies to compete across state lines then the consumer could indeed shop around. The argument has never been about the affordability of the actual health care. It has always been about being able to obtain health INSURANCE.

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