“That runs counter to free market theory.”
No it doesn’t.
The doctors will leave, and there will be few new market entrants because of how this DISTORTS the free market.
Witness Canada.
‘free’ healthcare in lesser and lesser quantities due to cost control and flight of doctors to the US.
Canada has approximately the same number of doctors per capita as we do, France has more.
Witness Canada.
Read Phantoms In The Snow its an actual study, not just assumptions based on anecdotal evidence.
‘free’ healthcare in lesser and lesser quantities due to cost control and flight of doctors to the US.
"Canada has fewer doctors per capita than the United States. In the U.S, there were 2.4 doctors per 1,000 people in 2005; in Canada, there were 2.2 OECD Health Data 2007" and "statistics published in 2005 by the Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI), show that, for the first time since 1969 (the period for which data are available), more physicians returned to Canada than moved abroad."
Apparently you don't think insurance companies engage in cost control.