Perhaps you got the wrong takeaway from my post--I think free markets are the bane of life-or-death products like health care, and free markets are in part why America is in the health care mess it's in today.
When you're dying on the side of the road, you'll pay anything to get better--and a free market will take everything, ruthlessly and without pity. That's what's happening to us, right now, today. If my mole had been cancerous, a doctor could have demanded any price to remove it, and I would have paid it, because the alternative is death. If my mole had instead been a time-sensitive situation, I wouldn't even have time to shop around, and I'd have to accept any price my doctor quotes--or chance death. The ability to shop around is typically at the crux of free-market health care arguments but shopping around isn't possible in life-or-death situations like health care.
Literally every other country in the world understands this, and that's why health care is rightly socialized in every single other country on earth except America.
>...If my mole had been cancerous, a doctor could have demanded any price to remove it, and I would have paid it, because the alternative is death.
Is there only one Doctor where you live?
>...The ability to shop around is typically at the crux of free-market health care arguments but shopping around isn't possible in life-or-death situations like health care.
Most of health care provided is not an emergency life or death situation. You have never had been given healthcare where your life wasn't in immediate danger? That is quite unusual.
>...Literally every other country in the world understands this, and that's why health care is rightly socialized in every single other country on earth except America.
Every other country? That is clearly false - you might want to read the article for one counter-example. (There are very few countries where all health care is socialized. Most are a mix of private and public options like the US.)
When you're dying on the side of the road, you'll pay anything to get better--and a free market will take everything, ruthlessly and without pity. That's what's happening to us, right now, today. If my mole had been cancerous, a doctor could have demanded any price to remove it, and I would have paid it, because the alternative is death. If my mole had instead been a time-sensitive situation, I wouldn't even have time to shop around, and I'd have to accept any price my doctor quotes--or chance death. The ability to shop around is typically at the crux of free-market health care arguments but shopping around isn't possible in life-or-death situations like health care.
Literally every other country in the world understands this, and that's why health care is rightly socialized in every single other country on earth except America.