[jerf]

The point is not that making health care more free market would necessarily improve it. The point is that using the US healthcare system to beat up on free markets is fallacious, because the US healthcare system is not a free market in the first place.

Cards on the table, I do think that more freedom in the market would be good for the entire system, from top to bottom. But I can find myself in total agreement with those who think it should be more socialized that what we have now is a really crazy, chaotic system that seems to manage to combine the worst of both worlds. As a result, it's every bit as valid to claim that socialized health care is a disaster because the US health care system proves that it doesn't work... which is to say, an entirely invalid and fallacious claim.