Cafe Hayek:

"Responding to one of the lamest arguments that I’ve yet encountered for why a free market in health care is impossible, I sent the following letter a few days ago to the Washington Post:

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'Even granting Mr. Billings’ allegation that no consumer can refuse to have a broken bone fixed or to have medically necessary dialysis, it doesn’t at all follow that a free market in health care is impossible. After all, a thriving and competitive market in food exists even though no consumer can refuse to eat. Just as each consumer can easily refuse to purchase food from any particular grocer or restaurant, so too can each consumer refuse to purchase health care from any particular physician or clinic.'

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Why can't free market economists (Cafe Hayek usually has reasonable things to say) stop saying that consumers can choose to not purchase healthcare from the companies they don't like? Do they not understand anything about having no choices even when there are many plans out there? Choices are sometimes just limits. Being uninformed and essentially cornered is a mainstay in the US? A race to the top when bad plans are the standard? JFC! Choice only matters when there is real competition and the choices are what you actually want if you had to blind taste test and only were concerned with your actual needs.

This is no doubt what we're going to see from a super fake campaign coming our way, the US Chamber of Commerce. SQUASH IT. You may have missed the big flop that were Microsoft house parties -- same thing. Market efficiency thinking, consumers can choose mentality, and free enterprise rules without ANY regulation crashed the country about 5 times. If they feign grassroots, they are not mobilizing people with truth/education. Deem them fake and we win.

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