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_delirium on May 8, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: Your heart attack bill: $3,300 in Arkansas, $92,00...

Wouldn't a free-market system have to ration coverage in some way as well, unless infinite resources were put into medical treatment? The disagreement seems to be over how to ration it, e.g. do you do it based on wait-lists, or do you do it more auction-style, or some hybrid (like France), or something else entirely?

dragonwriter on May 8, 2013 [–]

> Wouldn't a free-market system have to ration coverage in some way as well

"Free market" is a rationing system that provides scarce goods/services to those willing and able to pay the most first.

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