Republicans and libertarians are tied to the fantasy that a 'free market' exists. How you convince someone who has faith in myth that it is myth is sorta impossible. The imaginary is not open to argument in spite of the growing disparities in rights and privilege. People are not free when their lives are controlled by market forces that push them aside. Having healthcare should be a right not the privilege of the wealthy only.
"The history of industrial development in the United States, often considered the epicenter of free markets, demonstrates the political nature of markets. The history of market formation in the United States reveals an industrial structure supplied by goods and capital extracted from slave labor and facilitated through a state-sponsored, genocidal land grab. Far-reaching government legislation protected domestic markets and infant industries from external competition, and federal and state governments played a central role in the development of physical infrastructure (canals, railways, telegraphy) and the creation of huge bodies of agricultural and industrial knowledge - all essential elements in the genesis of American industrial capitalism.
At the same time, society's greatest inventions and innovations of the past two hundred years-rockets to the moon, penicillin, computers, the internet - were not bestowed upon us by lone entrepreneurs and firms operating in free markets under conditions of healthy competition. They were the work of institutions: CERN and the Department of Defense created the internet, while Bell Labs - a subdivision of AT&T, freed from market competition by federally granted monopoly rights-generated transistors, radar, information theory, "quality control," and dozens of other innovations central to our epoch." Nearly every advance in science, technology, and mathematics emerged from people working together at universities supported by government funding. Creativity and innovation come from many places. Companies produce influential innovations, but so do other institutions that operate outside the confines of the profit motive, competitive markets, and the bottom line." Nicole Aschoff, p59 'The New Prophets of Capital'