What all this means is that the cost of medical care is subject to market forces that diverge strongly from the prices patients would pay in a free market.
With universal coverage by health savings accounts, a private competitive market in medical care would emerge to supplement or even replace the bloated bureaucratic health insurance programs of insurance companies and federal and state governments.
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With that, we will lose our last chance at a private market for medical care, lose more of our freedom of choice, and fall deeper into the sticky embrace of the central planners in Washington.
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Two companies, DaVita in El Segundo, Calif. and Germany's Fresenius Medical Care, dominate the in-center market.
Two companies, DaVita in El Segundo, California and Germany's Fresenius Medical Care, dominate the in-center market.
The challengers conceded that the government could do many things to regulate the health-care market, including requiring individuals to pay for medical services with insurance or creating a system in which the government pays for everyone's care.
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Ian Gershengorn, a Justice Department lawyer representing the administration, said the health insurance market is unlike any other, since all Americans at some point get medical care.
On Jan. 8, it announced it will partner with Fresenius Medical Care, another leading dialysis services and products provider with a 33% share of the dialysis market in 2011.
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And the president should repeal Obamacare and support free-market solutions, like medical malpractice reform and allowing all Americans to buy any health care policy they like anywhere in the United States.
The best approach is probably to buy supplements from a pharmacy, health food store, qualified health care professional such as medical or naturopathic doctor, or from a large retail chain such as Whole Foods Market, which has very rigid standards for evaluating all supplements that its stores carry.
The Justice Department has countered that since every American will need medical care at some point in their lives, individuals do not "choose" to participate in the health care market.
The Justice Department countered that since every American will need medical care at some point in their lives, individuals do not "choose" whether to participate in the health care market.
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