Healthcare: There Is No Market
9th May 2026
A prominent X account recently posted her insane $9,000 bill for a hospitalization from a year prior. Then, as always happens, someone on the internet announced with great confidence that this is what happens when healthcare is left to the free market. As if the most regulated industry in America actually functions in a free market.
Nowhere in America is a free market, except maybe schoolkids trading baseball cards.