In my view, the root cause of the bizarreness is that medical care is one of a few enterprises that are inherently social in nature, and is therefore a prima fa

In my view, the root cause of the bizarreness is that medical care is one of a few enterprises that are inherently social in nature, and is therefore a prima facie exception to the common wisdom that free markets create the most positive outcomes for the largest number of people. Because in the US we are taught from a young age that private sector capitalism is "all there is", we end up tying ourselves into knots trying to solve medical care using the wrong toolset.