Quote:It wouldn't if government weren't involved in it.

It would be more expensive. That's the point of business as you guys like to remind us. To make more and more money. You do that by raising prices (hospitals/doctors) in a colluded way or by swallowing competition to create a monopoly because that's what unregulated markets do or by denying services (insurance carriers) because that's what they have been doing for decades. 

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