It is an excellent example of why health care is fundamentally at odds with capitalism.

Now I don’t see this as black and white. The free market is a useful tool one can use in healthcare WHERE it makes sense.

However that is not nearly as many places as the conservative free market fan club thinks it is.

This ought to be a reminder that more market does not equal better. More market thinking in health care is to the contrary going to bring worse results.

It is an extremely difficult problem to solve which means they only way to deal with it is through experimentation, tinkering and data gatering. Not through ideological silver bullets.