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by ikeboy 3705 days ago
>As a society, we value the idea of everyone having access to health care, and if we make medicine a free market, the only people who get it will be those willing to pay the most.

Um what? If you artificially reduce the price, you reduce the supply, and thus decrease the number of people who get it.

My model of free market here is not supposed to affect the total supply, just the limited supply is divided based on money. If price controls increase supply, then there was a market failure of some sort, which probably counts under reason 2.