text: Taking care of sick people will never be profitable, this is the fundamental reason free market health care will never work. Comparing LASIK, a voluntary procedure, to rounds of chemotherapy or treatment for MS is absurd. The idea that "choice" is key makes sense only for healthy people seeking elective procedures. What choice is there is your kid has cancer? Millions of dollars in care or they die. What if they need a kidney transplant? The problem is that people can move from "healthy" to "in dire need of care" in a literal heartbeat. I've watched healthy active friends be diagnosed with cancer and ALS in their 20's, without insurance they would simply die. Full stop. No one can save enough or clip enough coupons to pay for that treatment. Pretending that people get sick because they have no financial motivation to stay healthy, or that the issue is voluntary treatment, is absolute nonsense. Not to mention the absurd costs you incur when older, that are paid forward by insurance.