https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articl...42740.html

Editorial arguing that health care could learn from the food industry.

"...This experience highlights something important: Government is neither omnipotent nor omniscient. Our government is an organization comprised of regular human beings who work in the context of a rules-based, process-obsessed, turf-conscious bureaucracy. Yes, our government demonstrates skill at national defense, will improve at public health, is well-suited to setting and enforcing rules, helps people who need income or other support and includes many admirable and even visionary leaders, but it’s not good at everything.

A free market comprised of private organizations is simply better at managing supply, setting prices and anticipating or responding to changing demands. The government should set and enforce the rules with an eye on safety, and provide modest income (and, in a crisis, liquidity) support when circumstances warrant, but our experience responding to COVID-19 demonstrates robust markets replete with private and social entrepreneurs are inherently better at providing goods and services to identify and heal the sick and keep the rest of us alive."

Free markets don't care about the general health of society, it's not what they are designed to care about. This isn't about me calling capitalism evil, but we aren't talking about the food industry where you have almost unlimited options to pick from at all different ranges of prices. There aren't gonna be countless different treatments and testing options no matter how free the damn market is unless this person is proposing getting rid of all drug patent laws and then pop up companies can just create cheap generic options immediately.