[j-j-j-j]

None of that stuff would be possible without government. It's a statism run amok.

It's the same story every time. Something works relatively OK (US health care before 20 century big-gov), huge changes to incentive structure and overheads are introduced by statists ignoring higher order effects, everything goes downhill, statists blame capitalism.

Let me legally not have insurance, pay anyone in cash for my health care (no licensens and government enforced monopolies), and buy any medicine I'd like and opt out of this madness completely and let's compare with real capitalism.

[wwweston]

It's always been legal not to have insurance (though there was a brief period where externalizing costs that way was taxed). You can pay cash for health care as you like now with any provider who cares to negotiate with you on a cash basis. There's even a variety of non-MD providers whose licensure ranges from more accessible through informal to non-existent should you object to credentials as distorting.

If you try doing health care this way for long enough, you might even discover which incentives are poorly aligned without collective policy of some kind, but who knows, maybe not.

[plagiarist]

We can surely fix this mess via same invisible hand that sent people down the horses aisle in the farm goods warehouses to use deworming medicine as a preventative antiviral.