For the most part, I agree with you. But we need a fix and we need it yesterday. I think it is much more likely that we can implement Universal Healthcare than

For the most part, I agree with you. But we need a fix and we need it yesterday. I think it is much more likely that we can implement Universal Healthcare than implement reforms that would bring transparency and other reforms that we'd need for a fully functional free market to the healthcare sector. Also, I have serious concerns about whether a purely profit-driven market system can even work when people are negotiating agreements with their lives and physical well-being on the line. I think the anomaly might be that the largely-free-market healthcare system in the US worked as well as it did for so long rather than the other way around. Truly, I think we owe a debt of gratitude to the people running healthcare businesses for the last hundred years, and those still trying to today that let some form of ethics beyond how much profit they can extract from desperate people guide them. Unfortunately, they are working at a severe disadvantage.