Again, an entirely different argument, but what country does that you'd like to emulate? We've tried the "no regulation" thing in our past; it's where the term "snake oil salesman" comes from.
"Free market healthcare" is just the right's version of "communism would work if it weren't for human nature".
> Of the members of the general population who reported they had “pains in the heart,” 25 percent did not see a physician (Andersen and Anderson, 1967).
Sounds awesome.
The article makes a pretty good case for your 1968 date being an attribution error - that years before it, the rise of things like transplants, ICUs, demographic changes, etc. were already messing up costs.
