The Medical Freedom Channel

“A national debate is taking place concerning the best ways to achieve a more efficient and equitable market for medical services and health insurance in the U.S. Advocates of free-market health care believe too much reliance on government regulations and subsidies is the cause of many current problems, and that solutions can be found in returning to sound market principles. A growing number of doctors, economists, elected officials, policy experts, business owners, and nonprofit research organizations are calling for using market-based policies to fix what ails the nation’s health care system. They believe in the vital importance of protecting human health, but they believe past government interventions often unintentionally cause rising health costs and dysfunction in private insurance markets. They also reject scare tactics, such as the common practice of equating a lack of private health insurance with a lack of access to medical care, and anti-corporate rhetoric aimed at HMOs, drug manufacturers, and investor-owned hospitals.” (09/01/2002)