It seems so right from an Adam Smith invisible hand point of view: offer choice, allow people to shop around, and costs will go down, right?<p>The US has already been running this experiment—the results are in, and it&#x27;s a huge loser. Everything you need to know is in this chart:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;File:Total_health_expenditure_per_capita,_US_Dollars_PPP.png" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;File:Total_health_expenditure_...</a><p>It turns out that everyone pays a lot less when you treat healthcare infrastructure like roads, dams, the power grid, or any other infrastructure— it has certain high fixed costs which build and sustain it (financed from the general tax base), and apart from that, it should be available for use by everyone.