Free-market? What free-market?

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Submitted by Adam Wildavsky (United States), Sep 4, 2014 11:29

Dr, David writes:

I believe in free-market solutions almost as strongly as I believe in abiding scientific principles such as relativity.

The implicaton is that his experience was a consequnece of the free market. A little introspection ought to tell him that nothing could be further from the truth. Our present-day medical and insurance systems are so heavily regulated they could be considered arms of the government.

As Ayn Rand wrote:

Contradictions do not exist. Whenever you think you are facing a contradiction, check your premises. You will find that one of them is wrong.

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