Sure, but they have their own FDA equivalent with their own regulations. Why are the regulations in the US more harmful than the regulations elsewhere?
Many of those issues are not specific to the US. So are you arguing for doing away with drug patents or something? That is rarely an argument I see from someone praising free markets.
Warning about above poster: they believe slavery is free-market.
Of course people active in free-market discussion know that patents as government imposed forced monopoly against people that never entered a contract with the "patent-holder" are staunchly opposed by many free market thinkers, including individuals such as Murray Rothbard. Again in SLG's bad-faith quest to make free-markets about slavery and monopolies, he uses his exceptional intelligence in attempts to trick the naive reader into a false view about free markets.
> countries in which insulin is cheaper have a healthcare industry that is a freer market than the US?
Here we see the fallacious slight of hand, where OP attempts to deceive audience by using PRICE OF A SINGLE GOOD to measure whether THE ENTIRE MARKET OF HEALTHCARE is "freer."
>Again in SLG's bad-faith quest to make free-markets about slavery and monopolies,
Yeah, I'm the one acting in bad faith...
My comment about patents was because in the US political sphere "free market" and is often code for "pro-business" so I was checking which meaning WalterBright was using.
