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So much for market forces in the land of the free!

How is this not market forces? Europe is using anti-market forces regulations to artificially lower the price, while the US is letting the market (ignoring some monopoly and collusions arguments of course) find the 'natural' price of a product. "Market price" doesn't necessarily mean lower price.

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Even the most pro free market economic theories have the core assumption that the free market only leads to efficient pricing under a set of core assumptions.

These include low barriers to entry, strong competition, perfect elasticity on both the consumer and producer side, and no mono/duo/oligopolies that prevent those from working correctly.

This is a classic oligopoly where the free market does in fact not work to find the "natural" price.

There can not be a “natural price” without competition.

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