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Just as a minor note, by the way, there cannot possibly be hard data about free market health care, because there is no developed country with free market health care. The United States has a huge share of health care provided through Medicare, Medicaid, and the VA, and most of the rest is provided through prepaid group care places that receive massive government subsidies through tax expenditures, and that are also sheltered from competition by state-level regulation of health insurance. That's not remotely what libertarians like me want; we're in favor of changes in American health care roughly as radical as going over to the Canadian approach would be. I understand that this is not what you would want, but if we were going to debate it (which I don't propose to do here), it would have to be on theoretical grounds, because there simply are no observational data on free market systems for you to appeal to.