Quote:I think Free market as conservatives would have it work just as they want it to. If you can't afford the medicine, then that's the free market at work. You should have worked harder to afford the medicine when you were well. Or they should hope people are (if they choose to be) charitable and provide them with help.

In a true free market healthcare system there is no insurance. That means the cost of treatment are regulated by what the market will pay. You wouldn't have $500 prescriptions for 12 pills, why because it's not affordable. Secondly without insurance buffers litigation against medical facilities and doctors would be limited to what that doctor or facility could pay, there wouldn't be these million dollar settlements going to lawyers driving up the overhead, doctors guilty would go out of business and be broke.


Now does this mean there would also be a wealthy medical market, middle class market and poor market, yes. That's not any different then what we have now. Who's to say the poor would be neglected that's absurd there's a huge market of poor people that need medical treatment someone would see that and offer low cost solutions with low profit margins but make a killing on volume. That's at worse assuming the society that has never left the poor behind would suddenly shun the poor simply because the Feds got out of the way.


For generations churches and other non profits including doctors on their off days ran free clinics. Hospitals offered payment plans for treatment after the fact and some organizations ran as charities to pay for rare treatments.


I take offense when people suggest we need government to take care of each other, I hold us in a higher regard, this is the largest group of caring, giving and self sacrificing people the world has ever seen. We've built this country on it and we where doing it long before Washington decided they could gain power and wealth by exploiting it. This is a county of good people at its core and that's why people like my family give up so much to get here. There's no other place like this.

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