This is the argument my socialist acquaintances always give me: "when you are having a heart attack, are you going to haggle with the hospital?"
The answer is: A free market creates the ample supply of goods and universal access that eliminate the need. When you are out of gas and in a hurry, do you need to haggle with the gas station? Same with food - does the supermarket charge different prices for a fat man and a starving man?
A controlled market destroys access to supply, and thus destroys choice. "Health care" in Cuba is free. Is that someplace you want to have a heart-attack?
Nah, go to canaDUH instead. LOL! I believe you need to schedule your heart attacks so you can be fit in to the queue.
Good post.
Going in the other direction, look at what happened when the governments of Zimbabwe and Venezuela damaged the supply sides of their economies. Prices skyrocketed.