[mathgladiator]

Free Market would work great if the suppliers couldn't reject people. Free Market ideas work when suppliers want to see to all possible buyers. It's grossly unfair when suppliers can pick and choose buyers based on risk profilers. Essentially, the current system is "get a serious disease, then you do not pass go".

I've seen friends get seriously dicked over because they filled out some insurance paperwork wrong. Ironically (and sadly), they would have been fine without insurance and just invested in a index fund.

I'm a huge fan of socialized medicine simply because I think it benefits everyone simply to have doctors gathering more data. All the stuff we know now is because people had crazy things happen to them (and most of them probably died), so it's in the public interest that people don't go off into the corner and die; rather, the health data is valuable (especially for the rich and upper-middle class who I presume would like to live longer).