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[HydrogenBond]

Free market health care is more efficient than socialized health care. But on the other hand, the goal of the free market is too create wealth, which in health care, means providing as many goods and services as possible, including some junk food, if one can create a market for it. The inefficiency of government will not be able to provide the same level of frills, but will narrow down, by default. Many people are afraid they will lose their medical junk food, which I understand.

For example, if the government was in charge of national food care and was the sole provider of food to the people, it would not be efficient enough to support 12 versions of hamburger chains, 20 pizza chains, etc. It would look more like a small grocery store with the staff of a huge grocery store. We would lose the fast food.

If you look at health care, logically, if healthcare is actually improving health, the demand for goods and services should be going down. As an analogy, if a food bank was filling up the stomachs of people, after the initial spikes in demand, as all the residual hunger is satisfied, the eating curve should begin to flatten. It should not be going up and up unless we are promoting obesity. The government is too inefficient to follow this free market model being lucky to organize the meat and potatoes. It would provide repetitive bland but healthy food choices, that will flatten the curve.

Another analogy I see, is an oil change. We only need to change the oil in the auto about every 5000 miles. But the free market says 3000. The inefficiency of the government will strive for 5000 but end up with 4000. The next possible step for national health is getting rid of the medical care compulsive disorder so the reality of 5000 miles is seem as more real than 3000 miles. I can see the bumbling government saving the day as it trips and pushes the lever by accident, so people realize, wow, we only need to change the oil every 5000 miles.