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.
"Free market healthcare" is just the right's version of "communism would work if it weren't for human nature".