How "free market" something is is a continuum, not a binary distinction
Even worse: it's a multi-dimensional continuum, where the function mapping points from the space "all possible markets" to the space "quality of the resulting health care system" is almost completely unknown, but probably has lots of local maxima and minima distributed throughout the space.
The task we're faced with is "maximize the value of the quality function by making semi-blind guesses, while hopefully not landing in a very bad local minimum". I don't think they covered an algorithm for that one in my CS classes...
Even worse: it's a multi-dimensional continuum, where the function mapping points from the space "all possible markets" to the space "quality of the resulting health care system" is almost completely unknown, but probably has lots of local maxima and minima distributed throughout the space.
The task we're faced with is "maximize the value of the quality function by making semi-blind guesses, while hopefully not landing in a very bad local minimum". I don't think they covered an algorithm for that one in my CS classes...