The main reason so many people lack health insurance is because of its cost. And a big reason for that cost is the explosion of expensive, medically questionable care, be it knee replacement, preventive angioplasty or lumbar fusion. The route to an affordable health insurance solution runs straight through this thicket. (New York Times, Wednesday)
The free market would reconnect choice with cost.
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Free-Market Medicine by Larry Van Heerden