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A market is either free or it's not. You can't have "a touch of pregnancy" and you can't have a free market which is a "little bit free". It's not a free market, period. I didn't say you could get the treatment you like, I said you could use the service provider of your choice. I think your...

Government dishing out contracts is not a free market. The U.S. does not have a free market in healthcare, not at all. Medicare, medicaid. Inflation in medical care is huge. "Defensive medicine" and medical related lawsuits in the U.S. is a factor. Over testing also a big problem in the U.S. I...

If there are two poorly run hospitals in B&H then a third and maybe a fourth would be built, because a new well run hospital is needed and will be successful. When it is successful the other two poorly run hospitals which nobody uses anymore go bust and become flats. Circle of life. If our...

It's not simple to build and open any business. When a business starts up and builds a factory, it's an outlay, an investment with a view to creating a successful business which will pay those initial costs and more. That's how things work. In a free market you don't end up with a monopoly...

Why would you not have multiple service providers competing with one another? We don't have that today, but that's because all healthcare spending is directed through the state to the provider it runs. There is no marketplace. If their was a marketplace, and there was a lack of quality in this...

In a free market the costs would go down, not up, so healthcare would be more affordable. Healthcare costs today are insanely high, because it's a government run monopoly without competition where funds are directed politically. Also what I described could still work like a form of mutual...

How about, instead of paying in money and having the government dish it out, people pay into a health savings account which can only be used for medical expenses, but can be directed by the person to a health care provider of their choosing? The idea that businesses only cut corners and try to...