• RestrictedAccount@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    Adam Smith, who is considered to be quite the capitalist, said that it is impossible to have a free market if the participants cannot choose not to participate.

    Letting Doctors use the “free market” set medical prices is not only sinful, it is not justifiable by the most originalist economic theory.

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      10 months ago

      Letting Doctors use the “free market” set medical prices is not only sinful, it is not justifiable by the most originalist economic theory.

      That’s not even what’s happening. It’s vampire middlemen setting the prices, which is even worse.