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I am good with getting rid of B).

A) can probably only be fixed with regulation. Why would hospitals and insurance otherwise make prices transparent? The current state serves them really well.

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Because in a fair market they would be competed away - prices of food, computers, bonds, etc are not transparent because of regulation - it's largely because of the tax incentive as far as I've read from healthcare economists.

healthcare isn’t really a market economy and neither should it be.

we should make it a public a service without a profit motive

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