Hey Old I just gave you a thanks. Not because your post was was so useful, it is after all old information that is readily available and is regularly ignored by those on the right.
It's not "information", it's an opinion. And the reason it's ignored (and not just by those on the "right", btw) is because there is a lot of equivocation on the meaning of the term free market. From my perspective, what we have now - and have had for some time - is a far cry from a free market. Further, the biggest problems we have with health care are directly attributable to regulation and tax policies that have moved us away from a free market. They distort our use of insurance and accelerate health care inflation.
I'd agree with that mostly.
I guess that sooner or later we have to answer the current question: Should health care be governed by "free market" principles?
I'm wondering what you think of as 'free market principles'. For me, those principles are the same as the principles of free society in general, namely voluntary cooperation and self-ownership.
What sort of principles would you have govern health care?