As the anecdotes offered in these threads illustrate, it is not possible to cost or value healthcare on an individual basis. Therefore, any market for individu

As the anecdotes offered in these threads illustrate, it is not possible to cost or value healthcare on an individual basis. Therefore, any market for individual purchase of healthcare (whether via insurance or directly) can only have faulty price signals. Systems based on markets with faulty price signals are wide open to manipulation. The perpetuation of such markets is contemptible, and particularly so in the case of healthcare since there is a straight line to be drawn from dysfunctional systems to human suffering.