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Healthcare is not, and will never be, a free market. Applying free market dynamics to it just does not work. It's bad reasoning. People are quick to jump to fr

Healthcare is not, and will never be, a free market. Applying free market dynamics to it just does not work. It's bad reasoning. People are quick to jump to free market reasoning because it's quick, easy, and requires little to no thought or nuance. But step number 1 is you have to prove said market is a free market. And, if it's not, you then have to prove forcing it to be a free market is not only possible, but beneficial for society as a whole. Nobody does that though, because it's hard. So they just hope if they skip the most fundamental part of free market reasoning that nobody would notice. No, we notice.

mindslight 1y ago
> People are quick to jump to free market reasoning because it's quick, easy, and requires little to no thought or nuance ... to defend something that is broken, because it assuages their belief in the just world fallacy. I would say that we could actually use more freer market dynamics for many aspects of healthcare. But they need to be appropriately applied to areas where there are specific problems that can actually be fixed with things like more transparency, patient choice, etc - AND NOT in ways that merely justify the existence of problems or even exacerbate them!