[foolrush]

Unfettered in the capitalist sense and over-arching system, not necessarily administration thereof. Also remember that it is precisely unfettered capitalism that leads to layers of said administration, seeking profit at every turn.

Turning over a few rocks and we can quickly see that the cost of administration of medicine, including devices, pharmaceuticals, etc. is also wound up in this dance of maximal profit at all cost. This doesn't even begin to examine the cultural role capitalism has played in the legislation the enshrines the administrative layers to preserve profits for the corporate entities.

The last concern under such a system is the person and their health, or the ethical-societal implications, because such a model provides no such metric.

[maxharris]

Capitalism unfettered by what?

Capitalism, in pure form, is a political system (this is not a typo - I did not mean to write "economic") in which a strong central government protects the individual rights of each of its citizens (mainly by going after people who murder, theft, fraud). A capitalist government does not regulate industry.

Despite what you say above, what we have today is not capitalism. In healthcare in the US today, it's 80% state control, 20% private (if not 90/10).

I'm not going to comment on the rest of what you've written because the above is a more fundamental point, and we clearly don't agree on it.