People I know who have worked in commercial aviation have claimed that it takes more paperwork to put a bolt on a plane than into a human body. While this may or may not be true, commercial aviation is a counter example of a tightly regulated industry that very much a free market that challenges your assumption that regulation alone are the reason for issues in healthcare.

Some regulation is key, like HIPPA or the drug approval process, or the lack of approval of medical devices leading to issues. We will never have a loosely regulated healthcare industry if we want privacy and safety for patients.

Whatever the system, the goal should be cost effective betterment of public health.

> The healthcare market isn't even close to free, it's the most tightly regulated industry. Until that changes, nothing will get better.

Agreed. I feel like people just like using the "socialism will solve everything" argument while not acknowledging that right or wrong - healthcare in the USA is anything but free market.