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The US health care system is indeed very bad especially in terms of
cost. Its ironic that a major reason for this is the absence of a free
market in the medical sector. The American Medical Association
undermines the free market with a death grip on who gets to practice
medicine in the country and that grip is so strong that even the
celebrated Nobel prize winning economist Milton Friedman (a major
critic of the AMA) could do nothing to loosen it.

That's part of the problem, but the greatest part of medical costs comes from
institutional providers, i.e., hospitals, and not practitioners. Hospitals
are faceless, for-profit organizations that care only about how much money
they make, and some of them will literally throw cripples out onto the
sidewalk if they cannot pay.

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