American emergency care is the exact opposite of a "free market". In a free market, you get to shop around, compare prices and most importantly, there is a sup

American emergency care is the exact opposite of a "free market". In a free market, you get to shop around, compare prices and most importantly, there is a supply and demand curve where if prices rise too much, you can choose not to consume the product. Works great with potato chips, not so much with bleeding wounds. If I'm 'forced' to go to the nearest hospital because I may die if I don't, then that hospital should be 'forced' to bill me a fair rate. You can't have free market billing but captured service demand. They do the same with utility pricing - the power company can't decide to 10x the cost of a KW (sorry Texas), so the same should be for medical bills (especially emergency care). We've 'socialized' firefighting, policing and the defense of our country. Why haven't we done the same with health care? I dunno, maybe not enough Americans have visited Europe or Canada and seen the liberating power of free health care.