When I read the GPs complaint about free markets, I took it to mean that this situation was proof that free market ideas are invalid. To counter this, I was tr

When I read the GPs complaint about free markets, I took it to mean that this situation was proof that free market ideas are invalid. To counter this, I was trying to say that people themselves (through creating barriers) are deliberately undermining the free market idea. Now I see that it can be read to imply that the US (the land of free markets) isn't really so competitive after all (hence the 'legend'). True enough.