Free-market Health Care Part 2
A growing number of economists, elected officials, policy experts, business owners, nonprofit research organizations, and even doctors are calling for the start of using market-based policies to fix what the nation’s dismal health care system. They believe in the utmost necessity of protecting human health, but they also believe that past government interventions are often the cause that unintentionally give way to rising health costs and mayhem in private insurance markets. They also refuse to respond to scare tactics, such as the common method of equating a lack of private health insurance with a lack of access to medical care, and anti-corporate rhetoric aimed at HMOs, investor-owned hospitals, and drug manufacturers.